12. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 12: Sectional Politics and the Rise of the Republican Party

**Quiz for Document 12.2: Republican Party Platform (1856)**

Quiz for Document 12.2: Republican Party Platform (1856)

Document 12.2: Republican Party Platform (1856)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

Question 12.4

1. The introduction to the Republican Party platform of 1856 states that the party’s purpose is to unite Americans who agree on which of the following issues?

The importance of limiting slavery’s extension into the West

The abolition of slavery throughout the United States

The unconstitutionality of the doctrine of popular sovereignty

The importance of federal subsidies to businesses building new roads and railroads

Question 12.5

2. The third plank in the Republican Party’s platform describes the stripping of constitutional rights. Who, according to the plank, was deprived of their constitutional rights?

Slaves in the South

Free blacks in Kansas and Missouri

Settlers in Kansas

Slaves in Kansas

Question 12.6

3. Republicans believed that the U.S. Constitution was

a fundamentally proslavery document.

a flawed document that required a major overhaul.

a sound and valid document that southern legislators had violated.

a perfect document that clearly planned for the elimination of slavery.

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