Critical Thinking Questions  
 
 
 
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Counties Carried by Candidates in the 1856 Presidential Election
 
 
What is striking about the counties that voted for each of the presidential candidates in 1856?




What role does Millard Fillmore seem to have played in the election?




What does the distribution of votes for the two major-party candidates (John C. Frémont and James Buchanan) suggest about the emerging sectional split in the country?