Reasoning Web:

Side 1- Lincoln
Side 2- Douglas
Issue or Problem?
Slavery
Purpose/Goal
Side 1: To make an overall decision not have segregation throughout the states.
Side 2: To have the states decide whether there will be segregation or not in their federal territory.
Point of View
Side 1: Anti slavery- States that the founding fathers wanted all equality for their country and that the
future generations should get to decide how they would have it.
Side 2: Pro slavery- States that the founding fathers wanted equality only for the white men and that each
states should get their own overall say on what happens with in
Evidence/Data
Side 1: When Abraham states that the assumption, Stephen made about the founding fathers making this
country part slave and part free, is incorrect, he is using facts about what was said in the constitution and
that the originals just left it as they found it, specifically for us to decide, change, or alter the future of the
nation.
Side 2: When Stephen talks about the states making their own decision or not to follow the policy Illinois
has created, he uses Illinois as evidence that the states can make their own profitable decision and that
an overall law would ruin that possibility.
Concepts and Ideas
Side 1: Lincoln more believes that the fate of this country should be left up to the future generations as
the founding fathers made it.
Side 2: Douglas believes that the fate of the country lies in each of the states and that the only equality is
within the white men.
Assumptions
Side 1: It kind of seemed that lincolna assumed that the government agreed with douglas and that the
majority of the people in the country believed the same. Therefore he assumed that what he was saying
would cause immediate inconvenience to the states so he defended himself.
Side 2: As lincoln stated in the primary document, Douglas assumed that since the founding fathers left
the slavery intact and the country the way that they founded it, it should always stay this way, and white
men are superior in making these decisions.

Inferences
Side 1: We should have an overall decision to abolish slavery everywhere, for the equality the founding
fathers wanted for us.
Side 2: We should keep the issues of slavery to be dealt with in each individual state, to have slavery and
t not. And even in this, the equality the founding fathers wanted is meant for the white men.
Implications/Consequences
Side 1: If we leave it up the the states to decide, there will never be equality. This country will never be
what the founders intended it to be.
Side 2: If we make an overall decision to abolish slavery, we will be ruining everything the father wanted
us to be. White men are superior and only we deserve equality.