Wednesday, 15 January 2014

History Homework - Friday 10th January - The different parties - pgs 66 - 69 - 1856 elections

Republican Party

Platform

John C. Fremont

Ticket

The Platform declared that they had "both the right and the imperative duty ... to prohibit in the territories of those two relics of barbarism - Polygamy and Slavery"

The platform also supported the notion of a northern pacific railroad. The republican slogan was: "Free soil, Free labour, Free Men, Fremont"


Democrats

Platform

James Buchanan

Ticket

The Platform upheld the 1850 compromise and endorsed popular sovereignty. The Democrats claimed that they were the party of peace, stability and unity.

The platform attacked the Republicans for being rabid abolitionists who aimed to elevate blacks to equality with whites.

Know Nothing

Platform

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