-the real successor to the Whig Party was this party-the birthplace of this party was Ripon, Wisconsin-they began as a generally antislavery party-they adopted many of the pro-business, nationalistic ideas of the Whigs, such as the protective tariff and government support of roads, railroads, and other internal improvements-they appealed to the small farmer by promising the distribution of inexpensive land to settlers in the western territories-they remained strictly a sectional party and were nonexistent in the South-they borrowed the slogan, "Free Speech, free press, free soil, free men, Fremont and victory"

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