12. IMPERIAL AMBITIONS AND SECTIONAL CRISES, 1842

Quiz for Solo Analysis Document 12.4 Republican Party Presidential Ticket, 1860

Quiz for Solo Analysis Document 12.4: Republican Party Presidential Ticket, 1860

Choose the best answer for each question.

1. How does the banner appeal to farmers and laborers?

Lincoln’s attire

Reference to the Union

The working men at the base with produce

The image of the Eagle at the top

2. How did the Republicans appeal to northern manufacturers?

The center imagery of ships and smokestacks as well as the shield

The cornucopias full of farm and agricultural produce

Farm tools and the farmer at the bottom front

Reference to free speech on the top banner

3. To what might they appeal with their “free homes” line on the banner?

Transcontinental Railroad legislation

The Homestead Act

Ordinance of Secession

The Dred Scot ruling

4. What issue is subtly addressed by the reference to “free territory”?

Immigration

Secession

Slavery

Mexican War

5. Who would be unlikely to find a connection within this banner?

Republican free soilers

Slave owning democrats

Western migrants

Immigrants and Know Nothings

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