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They were pro-expansion of slavery into the territories but anti-federal slave code, they wanted popular sovereignty in the territories to determine if free or slave state.

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President: Stephen A. Douglas
Vice President: Herschel Johnson

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Their platform contained "no political principle other than the Constitution" and wanted to preserve the Union.

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They opposed the expansion of slavery in new territories.

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They were pro expanding slavery into the territories, they wanted a federal slave code to be implemented in the new territories.

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President: Abraham Lincoln
Vice President: Hannibal Hamlin

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President: John C. Breckinridge
Vice President: Joseph Lane

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President: John Bell
Vice President: Edward Everett

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- endorsing a protective tariff
- a transcontinental railroad
- Homestead Act that promised to give free land to settlers
-free wage-labor
- they opposed moving slavery westward

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- wanted to protect rural and agricultural interests
- some worked to make laws that would deny African American rights
- wanted federal intervention to help protect slaveholders
- deemed popular sovereignty morally bankrupt
- supported slavery against free soilers

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- advocated for popular sovereignty in the territories
- didn't believe slavery should expand
- wanted to construct a railroad to the Pacific coast
- the united states had a duty to protect citizens, in or out of country
-the party would obey the Supreme Court

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- wanted to extend the Missouri compromise line across the rest of the US
-Congress and territorial legislatures could not prevent individuals from bringing slaves into the territories.
-they campaigned that their candidate had the best political experience of all the candidates
-they wanted to take northern states from republican party

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Abraham Lincoln with 180 electoral votes and 1,865,908 popular votes.

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Ticket for John Bell

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Ticket stub for Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin

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Ticket for Stephen A. Douglas and Herschel V. Johnson

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Ticket for John C. Breckinridge and Joseph Lane