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  • Thumbnail for Free Soil Party
    The Free Soil Party was a political party in the United States from 1848 to 1854, when it merged into the Republican Party. The party was focused on opposing...
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  • conventions of the Free Soil and Liberty parties met in 1847 and 1848 to nominate candidates for president and vice president in advance of the 1848 United States...
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    Election of 1848." in American Presidential Campaigns and Elections (Routledge, 2020) pp. 328–348. Rayback, Joseph G. Free Soil: The Election of 1848. (1970)...
    43 KB (3,195 words) - 14:10, 27 August 2024
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    census. The village of Free Soil is located within the township. Free Soil Township was named in 1848 after the Free Soil Party. The township is in northern...
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  • anti-slavery Conscience Whigs from New England and the Midwest, to form the Free Soil Party. This group nominated former President Van Buren to run again for...
    5 KB (590 words) - 00:09, 14 March 2024
  • the emerging Free Soil coalition. Representatives of the three factions met at Buffalo on August 9, 1848, to organize the national Free Soil Party and nominate...
    92 KB (10,856 words) - 02:24, 1 September 2024
  • in many parts of the United States. Supporters included members of the Free Soil Party, Conscience Whigs, and anti-slavery-extension Democrats. Some were...
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    western territories. He supported the Free Soil Party ticket of Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams Sr. in the 1848 presidential election. In 1854, in...
    23 KB (2,658 words) - 05:51, 26 June 2024
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    John P. Hale (category Free Soil Party United States senators)
    establish the anti-slavery Free Soil Party and was a candidate for the party's presidential nomination in 1848, but the 1848 Free Soil Convention instead nominated...
    21 KB (1,979 words) - 20:13, 17 August 2024
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    ISBN 978-1-4628-2150-1 – via Google Books. "The Election of 1848: Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men". NPS.gov. Washington, DC: National Park Service. December...
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    elected for a two-year term (1848–1849) in the State Senate. At the State election in November 1848, 106 Whigs, 15 Free Soilers and 7 Hunkers were elected...
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    declarations of principle, of which 10 dealt directly with the issues of "free soil", slavery, the Fugitive Slave Act, and the preservation of the Union,...
    32 KB (3,227 words) - 21:26, 13 August 2024
  • Union John Bell Edward Everett 590,946 12.62 / 100 15.43 / 100 39 / 303 1848 Free Soil Martin Van Buren Charles F. Adams 291,475 10.13 / 100 13.79 / 100 0...
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  • Convention The 1848 Whig National Convention The 1848 Free Soil & Liberty national Conventions The Industrial Congress National Convention, 1848 The 1848 Constitutional...
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  • Thumbnail for Gideon Welles
    in the 1844 election, he would abandon the Democrats in 1848 to support Van Buren's Free Soil campaign. Mainly because of his strong anti-slavery views...
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  • alcohol, while a "broad-gauge" minority — who also wanted to advocate for Free Silver and other reforms — broke away to form the National Party. The Socialist...
    60 KB (922 words) - 20:43, 21 August 2024
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    Charles Francis Adams Sr. (category Massachusetts Free Soilers)
    to found the abolitionist Free Soil Party in 1848; he was the party's vice-presidential candidate in the election of 1848 on a ticket with former president...
    23 KB (2,274 words) - 03:02, 24 August 2024
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    In the presidential election of 1848, the Democrats split over the slavery issue, and abolitionists formed the Free Soil Party, with former president Van...
    129 KB (16,298 words) - 09:24, 25 August 2024
  • Weaver 1880 Greenback 308,649 Third-party candidate. Martin Van Buren 1848 Free Soil 291,501 Third-party candidate (former president). Andre Marrou 1992...
    93 KB (529 words) - 12:16, 19 August 2024
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    expand suffrage beyond white landowners to all white males, but adopted a "free soil" stance opposing both slavery and abolition. In 1837, he declared, "[The]...
    205 KB (22,833 words) - 19:22, 29 August 2024
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