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  • Thumbnail for Free Soil Party
    The Free Soil Party was a short-lived coalition political party in the United States active from 1848 to 1854, when it merged into the Republican Party...
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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)...
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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...
    25 KB (2,740 words) - 15:22, 19 February 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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  • 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...
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  • 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...
    89 KB (10,486 words) - 00:48, 25 January 2024
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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 (2,650 words) - 13:23, 11 March 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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    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) - 19:04, 2 March 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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    two major parties did not make slavery an issue in the campaign. The Free Soil Party, mostly Liberty Party members and some Northern Democrats, nominated...
    111 KB (14,870 words) - 22:55, 28 February 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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    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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  • 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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    In the presidential election of 1848, the Democrats split over the slavery issue, and abolitionists formed the Free Soil Party, with former president Van...
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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 (3,175 words) - 05:33, 20 February 2024
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    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...
    22 KB (1,738 words) - 07:08, 30 December 2023
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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]...
    202 KB (22,542 words) - 20:19, 27 March 2024
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    Charles Sumner (category Massachusetts Free Soilers)
    nomination for the United States House of Representatives in 1848, instead helping organize the Free Soil Party and becoming chairman of the state party's executive...
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    bar in 1833, and began practicing in Hampden, Maine, where he lived until 1848. Hamlin married Sarah Jane Emery of Paris Hill in 1833. Her father was Stephen...
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