What did the republicans want in their 1860
presidential platform?
a. they wanted to secede from the united
states.
b. they wanted to stop slavery's spread in the
united states.
c. they wanted to win the southern vote.

Read the following passage. the early mill girls were of different ages. some were not over ten years old; a few were in middle life, but the majority were between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five. the very young girls were called "doffers." they "doffed," or took off, the full bobbins from the spinning frames, and replaced them with empty ones. based on the passage, early mill girls were mostly young. were mostly middle aged. were of a variety of ages. were mostly children.