Use the antonym of “opponents” to determine the meaning of the word advocates as it is used in the House Divided Speech. Explain how you figured out the word’s meaning and write your definition here.

The opponents are those who wished to end slavery..... the advocates wished to expand their cause until it was legal in all states.

Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new-North as well as South.