Answer the following questions covering the three presidential elections preceding Abraham Lincoln’s victory in 1860.
Imagine that it is election day in 1848. You are about to cast your vote in the presidential election and are excited to support this years’s Free-Soil candidate,______
• Martin Van Buren
• Charles Sumner
• Charles Francis Adams
You are voting for the Free-Soil Party candidate because you want a president who:
•Promises to give free homesteads to American wishing to settle in the West
•Believes that slavery is wrong and should be abolished immediately
•Will take a strong stance slavery in the territories
Imagine that it is election day in 1852. You are about to cast your vote in the presidential election and are excited to support this years’s Free-Soil candidate,______
•Joshua Giddings
•John P. Hale
•Samuel Lewis
You are voting for the Free-Soil Party candidate because you want a president who:
•Has taken strong stance against of Compromise of 1850
•Has pledged to give homesteads to western settlers
•Has no strong position on the Compromise of 1850
Imagine that it is election day in 1856. You are about to cast your vote in the presidential election and are excited to support this years’s Know-Nothing candidate,______
•Millard Fillmore
•George Law
•Garrett Davis
You are voting for the Know-Nothing Party candidate because you want a president who:
•Will take a firm stance to restrict Irish and German immigration to the United States
•Supports a vigorous program of protective tariffs, internal improvements, and railroad construction
•Opposes slavery throughout the country and has pledged to abolish it entirely
