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	Freeport - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		FREEPORT, a city and the county-seat of Stephenson county, Illinois, in the N.W. part of the state, on the Pecatonica river, 30 m.
		The city is served by the Chicago and North-Western, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul, and the Illinois Central railways, and by the Rockford and Interurban electric railway.
		Freeport was settled in 1835, was laid out and named Winneshiek in 1836, and in 1837 under its present name was made the county-seat of Stephenson county.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Freeport (247 words)

	Freeport Illinois Resource Guide, City or community of Freeport, Illinois Facts, Information, Relocation, Real Estate, ...
		The population of Freeport is approximately 26,500 (2002).
		Freeport is positioned 42.29 degrees north of the equator and 89.63 degrees west of the prime meridian.
		The weather in Freeport is typical for the midwest.
	www.usacitiesonline.com /ilcountyfreeport.htm (739 words)

	Freeport Illinois - More information / Community Sites of Northern Illinois / ComPortOne of Rockford Illinois
		The people of a territory can, by lawful means, exclude slavery from their limits prior to the formation of a state constitution, for the reason slavery cannot exist a day or an hhour anywhere unless it is supported by local police regulations.
		By the early morning of August 27, the roads into Freeport were lined with people, and this small town of 5,000 swelled to a crowd of 15,000 ro 20,000.
		Over the years, as the city of Freeport grew, homes and businesses were built around the site, and eventually the property became a city parking lot with only the boulder remaining to mark the historic event.
	www.comportone.com /cpo/comty/il-city/freeport/debate.htm (1088 words)

	Federal Court Ruling in Beanal v. Freeport, April 9, 1997
		Freeport appropriately moved to dismiss for failure to state a cause of action, under Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Procedure, rather than for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, under Rule 12(b)(1).
		Freeport further maintains that Beanal has failed to allege facts to state a claim for genocide even if the court should find that state action is not a required element of that claim.
		Freeport does not satisfy the definition of a "state" as that term is defined in international law.
	www.utwatch.org /corporations/freeportfiles/duval-970409.html (10474 words)

	History .:. Our Community .:. Freeport Area Chamber of Commerce
		Freeport’s founder, William “Tutty” Baker came to the area in 1835 and built a trading post on the banks of the Pecatonica River.
		Freeport became the county seat for Stephenson County in 1838, about 20 years after the State of Illinois was admitted to the Union.
		Many old homes of architectural significant are in the district, including Freeport's oldest house built in 1838, and the wrought iron Van Buren Bridge built in 1885, the last surviving bridge of its type and length.
	www.freeportilchamber.com /community/history.htm (689 words)

	Jane Addams Trail — Part of the Grand Illinois Trail
		Freeport currently is home to major companies such as Newell-Rubbermaid, Kelly-Springfield Tire Company, the Furst McNess Company and MICRO SWITCH, a division of Honeywell.
		The name of Freeport is closely connected with Abraham Lincoln for it was in this community on August 27, 1858, that Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate, debated his Democratic opponent Senator Stephen A. Douglas in the second of seven debates held across the state.
		Lincoln’s question and Douglas’ answer became known as the “Freeport Doctrine.” Douglas’ answer discredited him with the southern Democrats and split the Democratic Party and helped to give Lincoln, although unsuccessful in his Senate bid against Douglas, the Presidency two years later in 1860.
	www.janeaddamstrail.com /history_comm_freeport.htm (793 words)

	Everquest 2 OGaming - Freeport Factions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The corrupt city of Freeport remains fixed in the undying grip of its eternal overlord, Lucan D'Lere.
		The Freeport Militia is the primary defensive force of the city.
		This order is founded on a strict doctrine that follows the Covenant of the Accursed, an ancient tome rumored to have been stolen from the Plane of Knowledge.
	eq2.ogaming.com /data/1467~FreeportFactions.php (698 words)

	Douglas, Stephen Arnold - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		For the Compromise of 1850, Douglas drafted the bills instituting territorial government in New Mexico and Utah, whose citizens were left free to act for themselves on all subjects of legislation (including slavery) not inconsistent with the Constitution.
		This was the essence of Douglas's doctrine of popular sovereignty (a phrase he coined later, in 1854), or Squatter Sovereignty, as its opponents contemptuously called it.
		However, his Freeport doctrine, as his answer to Lincoln's question was styled, had made him anathema to Southern Democrats.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-douglsa.html (976 words)

	The Freeport Doctrine
		I have argued it in this beautiful city of Freeport; I have argued it in the North, the South, the East, and the West, avowing the same sentiments and the same principles.
		Lincoln, and they were pledged not to vote for him unless he was committed to the doctrine of no more slave States, the prohibition of slavery in the Territories, and the repeal of the Fugitive Slave law.
		The plain truth is this: At the introduction of the Nebraska policy, we believed there was a new era being introduced in the history of the Republic, which tended to the spread and perpetuation of slavery.But in our opposition to that measure we did not agree with one another in every thing.
	www.civics-online.org /library/formatted/texts/freeport.html (9379 words)

	Accommodation Freeport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Succinct accommodation freeport and up-to-date, "Assessment Accommodations for Diverse Learners" presents a systematic discussion of the use of assessment accommodations with two types of learners who have many assessment issues in common--students with disabilities accommodation freeport and students from linguistically diverse backgrounds (ELLs).
		Freeport Jet Wash Jets - The Freeport Jet Wash Jets are one of the four women's GBFL franchises that play in Freeport, Bahamas.
		Freeport Doctrine - The Freeport Doctrine was articulated by Stephen A. Douglas at the second of the Lincoln-Douglas debates on August 27, 1858, in Freeport, Illinois.
	fr57.360mkt.info /accommodationfreeport.html (1279 words)

	AllRefer.com - Freeport, cities, United States, United States (U.S. Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Freeport was the scene of the second Lincoln-Douglas debate (1858), in which Douglas expounded his famous "Freeport doctrine." 2 Town (1990 pop.
		The center of a thriving ranching, oil, and natural gas producing region known as Brazosport, Freeport has large chemical and shrimping industries; its products include magnesium extracted from seawater and vitamins.
		New port facilities were opened in 1955, and historic Velasco was annexed in 1957.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/FreeprtUS.html (292 words)

	Robert Bike, Licensed Massage Therapy, Photos Freeport, Illinois
		A memorial to Freeporters killed during the Vietnam War is at the bottom of the page.
		Freeport's mayor, Jim Gitz, is an old friend and classmate.
		Don was killed in action on January 8, 1968 in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, during the Tet Offensive in the Mekong Delta.
	www.bibleplants.com /Freeport.htm (1319 words)

	Freeport Doctrine
		At Freeport, Illinois, in the second of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Douglas made an effort to revive the doctrine of popular sovereignty, which had been imperiled by the Dred Scott decision.
		The doctrine's greatest extension came with Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary, which inverted the original meaning of the doctrine and came to justify unilateral U.S. broadened in Latin America.
		The two principles of the Doctrine, noncolonization and nonintervention, were not new or original.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h241.html (296 words)

	freeport - Ask.com Web Search
		Freeport is also the name of a setting...
		Freeport may be one of the newest cities in the Bahamas, but GBI wasn't born yesterday.
		Freeport developed as four villages, all of which are now part of the National Register Harraseeket Historic District:...
	search.ask.com /web?q=freeport (356 words)

	Jimmy the Cork : Amanda Corcoran2/28/05Period 3AP US Hist
		Cass was a leading supporter of the Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty, which held that the people who lived in a territory should decide whether or not to permit slavery there.
		In the Freeport debate Douglas was led to declare that any territory, by "unfriendly legislation", could exclude slavery, no matter what the action of the Supreme Court.
		This, the famous "Freeport Doctrine," lost Douglas the support of a large element of his party in the South, and in Illinois his followers did not poll so large a vote as Lincoln's.
	www.greatestjournal.com /users/bamf_girl143/36789.html (4417 words)

	ATTRACTIONS Whether you enjoy county fair midways or quiet contemplative settings
		This famous statue was designed by Leonard Crunelle of Chicago and was presented to Freeport at the seventy-first anniversary of the Lincoln-Douglas Debate on August 27, 1929 by local industrialist, W.T. Rawleigh.
		Numerous old and architecturally significant structures are in the district, including Freeport's oldest house built in 1838, the childhood home of famed Hollywood gossip columnist, Louella Parsons, and the Van Buren Bridge built in 1885 of wrought iron, the last surviving bridge of its type and length.
		The monument honors William "Tutty" Baker, the founder of Freeport.
	www.stephenson-county-il.org /visbureau/attract2.htm (1278 words)

	freeport doctrine 1858 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Origin of the Freeport Doctrine, one of the causes of the American Civil War (During 1858 Debate, Abrahama Lincoln asked Stephen Douglas if the citizens of a Territory allowing slavery could vote...
		Freeport Doctrine, which was the result of the debate, states people had the right to choose whether or...
		by the “Freeport Heresy” of Douglas and Lincoln’s “Freeport Doctrine.
	www.he-chess.de /freeportdoctrine1858 (262 words)

	Abraham Lincoln - MSN Encarta
		In the second debate, at Freeport, Lincoln asked Douglas whether the people of a territory could lawfully exclude slavery prior to the formation of a state constitution.
		This opinion, known as the Freeport Doctrine, cost Douglas much of his support among Southern Democrats who were thinking of him as a presidential candidate in 1860.
		In the last debate, at Alton, Lincoln said, “The sentiment that contemplates the institution of slavery in this country as a wrong is the sentiment of the Republican Party.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761577113_5/Abraham_Lincoln.html (848 words)

	Freeport Doctrine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Freeport Doctrine was articulated by Stephen A. Douglas at the second of the Lincoln-Douglas debates on August 27, 1858, in Freeport, Illinois.
		Lincoln tried to force Douglas to choose between the principle of popular sovereignty proposed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the United States Supreme Court case of Dred Scott v.
		However, the Freeport Doctrine alienated Southern Democrats, who preferred strict adherence to the Dred Scott decision regardless of personal views, and would eventually be key to his loss in the 1860 presidential election.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Freeport_Doctrine (485 words)

	questions on copyright & plagiarism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		"Fair use doctrine" of a copyrighted work means you can use it in a limited manner without infringement of that copyright.
		Basically the purpose is to allow the work to be used for teaching, commenting about, news reporting, scholarship, and /or research.
		However, the "fair use doctrine" and those four criteria help with decisions but if you are unsure, ask permission and realize you can email people today for a quick response.
	www.freeportpublicschools.org /FHS/library/faqprop.htm (947 words)

	Freeport - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Freeport" at HighBeam.
		Freeport, Texas, Shrimpers Fear City's Plan to Lure Boaters.
		Plantation project taking root in Freeport: Developer says community will offer housing that most families can afford, such as apartments and single family homes.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-freeprtu1s1.html (376 words)

	Causes of the Civil War
		To the charge of the North that secession was rebellion and treason, the South replied that the epithets of rebel and traitor did not deter her from the assertion of her independence, since these same epithets had been familiar to the ears of Washington and Hancock and Adams and Light Horse Harry Lee.
		In vindication of her right to secede, she appealed to the essential doctrine, "the right to govern rests on the consent of the governed," and to the right of independent action as among those reserved by the States.
		Calhoun substitutes the doctrine of minority rights for majority rule by equal individuals as the best way to achieve a balance between liberty and power.
	www.civilwarhistory.com /slavetrade/causes.htm (15367 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Lincoln-Douglas debates were re-enacted in the Fall of 1994 with live coverage by CSPAN.
		Over 15,000 people attended the original debate in Freeport, then a town of 5,000.
		Freeport Doctrine, which was the result of the debate, states people had the right to choose whether or not to exclude slavery from their limits.
	www.illinoiscivilwar.org /debates.html (362 words)

	The Keyes-Obama debates and the Lincoln-Douglas debates: Does history repeat itself?
		This policy became known as the Freeport Doctrine in memory of a debate he had with Lincoln in Freeport, Illinois.
		Lincoln, who was a humanitarian, thought that the Freeport Doctrine would seldom work in the interest of slaves.
		Douglas thought that his Freeport Doctrine — a moderate stance for the times — would reconcile the northern and southern Democrats.
	www.renewamerica.us /columns/hutchison/040809 (3469 words)

	Untitled Document
		His reputation had been damaged by his initation of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and its doctrine of "popular sovereignty," and he was out to restore his reputation with the voters in his state by convincing them that he stood for limiting slavery's expansion into the western territories.
		He claimed that popular sovereignty was merely a smokescreen, as the Fugitive Slave Act and the Supreme Court's recent decision in the Dred Scott case showed that free states couldn't enforce their own ideas of freedom.
		Douglas responded that the new territories themselves would limit the spread of slavery, in what was known as his "Freeport Doctrine." He also used these debates to claim that Lincoln supported racial equality, arguing that Lincoln could not support fl freedom without supporting fl citizenship rights as well.
	www.utexas.edu /courses/his315khaney/LincolnDouglas.html (522 words)

	Lincoln-Douglas Debates: August 21 to October 15, 1858
		Six days later the two met again in Freeport, a small town of 5,000 people tucked into the northwest corner of the state.
		Southerners were irate, and began referring to Douglas's statement as the Freeport Doctrine.
		Douglas's Freeport Doctrine, reluctantly spelled out after Lincoln had masterfully trapped him with the trick question, made him so many political enemies that he was denied a presidential nomination in 1860.
	www.angelfire.com /my/abrahamlincoln/Debates.html (1843 words)

	AP Franklin Pierce Hangman
		Freeport debate - Dred Scott court decision vs. Kansas-Nebraska principle of squatter sovereignty (Buchanan)
		(Douglas reply to Freeport Debate) pointed that slaery, while legal in all territories, could not exist in Northern areas.
		North would not pass laws to sustain slavery, so people of IL can be sure that slavery would not spread northward.
	www.studystack.com /hangman-37634 (479 words)

	The Growing National Crisis: The 1850s (5)
		A former president who ran as the first candidate of the Free Soil Party.
		The doctrine that left the decision whether a state would enter the Union slave or free up to the territorial legislature representing the people of that territory.
		This document urged lower-class southern whites to resist planter dominance and abolish slavery in their own best interests.
	www.historyteacher.net /USProjects/Quizzes5-6/The1850s-5.htm (237 words)

	Stephen Douglas and the Slavery Issue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In this doctrine, which became known as the Freeport Doctrine, because it was stated first in Freeport, Illinois, Douglas asserted that settlers could exclude slavery from a territory by not adopting local legislation to protect it.
		To Southerners this doctrine meant that they could be denied the victory they won in the Dred Scott case.
		Douglas was reelected to the Senate by a narrow margin in the state legislature, but Lincoln virtually discredited popular sovereignty in Illinois.
	www.lib.niu.edu /ipo/1999/ihy990227.html (775 words)

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