"Free" political party formed in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery
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United States Political Parties: The Free Soil Party (1848-52)  Apr 26, 2010 ... The Free Soil Party was formed after the Mexican War (1846-48) to ... The Party opposed the extension of slavery into the western territories.
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political party formed in 1848 that opposed the extension of slavery ...  FREESOIL, Political party formed in 1848 that opposed the extension of ... POPULIST, Political party formed in 1892 that advocated the free coinage of silver.
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Free Soil Party - Wikipedia  The Free Soil Party was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections, and in some state elections. Founded in Buffalo, New York, it was a third party and a single-issue party ... It opposed slavery in the new territories (agreeing with the Wilmot Proviso) and sometimes...
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Which political party was formed opposing slavery? | Yahoo Answers  Nov 12, 2010 ... Which political party opposed racial integration? ... What happened between 1848 and 1854 that could create a full-blown political party ... It had grown out of the free soil movement, which stood against extensions of slavery.
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Free-Soil Party | political party, United States | Britannica.com  (184854), minor but influential political party in the pre-Civil War period of American history that opposed the extension of slavery into the western territories. ... the newly formed Republican Party, which carried the Free-Soil idea of opposing...
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North South  Election of 1848 ... Free Soil Party ... Supported Wilmot Proviso; Nominated Martin Van Buren. "Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, & Free Men." Election of 1848. For decades the major parties avoided the issue of slavery. .... Be creative and include information on the following: ... Creative Slogans -- Political Cartoons.
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The Presidential Election of 1856  1856 election was a time in which we see the creation of the Democratic and Republican two-party system, as we ... formed Republican Party, which was anti-slavery and pro-industry, quickly became a ... On June 6th, President Pierce's name was withdrawn and ... slogan: Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Men, and Frmont. 3.
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Slavery in the North  William Henry Seward, Lincoln's anti-slavery Secretary of State during the Civil ... "The Invention of Free Labor" (1991) states, "By 1804 slavery had been abolished ... newspaper headlines as though they were exhibits of evidence in a case not yet ... in the economic and social order: New York City and northern New Jersey,...
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History of the United States Republican Party - Wikipedia  The Republican Party, also commonly called the GOP (for "Grand Old Party"), is one of the world's oldest extant political parties. It is the second oldest existing political party in the United States after its .... John C. Frmont ran as the first Republican nominee for President in 1856 behind the slogan: "Free soil, free silver, free...
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Know Nothing Party | Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing - eBooks ...  Mainly active from 1854 to 1856, it strove to curb immigration and ... prominent leaders were ex-President Millard Fillmore (the party's presidential nominee in 1856), .... The results of the 1854 elections were so favorable to the Know Nothings that ... Whigs supported the American Party because of their desire to defeat the...
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Missouri Compromise | HistoryNet  In 1819, the slaveholding territory of Missouri applied for admission to the Union. Northern states opposed it, feeling that Southern slaveholding states held too ... lay outside the Old Northwest, added to their fears of the expansion of slavery. ... Maine, up to that time a part of Massachusetts, wanted to enter as a free state,...
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Chapter 18-Renewing the Sectional Struggle 1848-1854 Flashcards ...  This renewed the hot issue of extending slavery into the territories as ... a drastic increase in population in the golden state which would inflame the slavery issue. ... between the North and South leading to the Compromise of 1850 was the ... of Vice-President Millard Fillmore who had been impressed with the arguments for...
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Whig Party (United States) - Wikipedia  The Whig Party was a political party active in the middle of the 19th century in the United States. Four Presidents belonged to the Party while in office. ... The Whig Party nominated several presidential candidates in 1836. .... by nominating Clay, nominated General Zachary Taylor, a hero of the MexicanAmerican War.
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Definition of Free Soil Party - 19th Century History - About.com  The new Republican Party nominated John C. Frmont for president in 1856, and adapted the old Free Soil slogan as Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Men, and...
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Abolitionist Movement - Sites - Google  ... said he would not interfere with slavery where it existed, but that he opposed its ... declared ratified on December 18, 1865, ended slavery in the United States...
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The National Anti-Slavery Standard 1840-1870  The American Anti-Slavery Society's newspaper featured writings by ... National Anti-Slavery Standard was established in 1840 by the husband and wife ... Lloyd Garrison's Liberator, also published by the Society, the Standard was ... 18431844; S.H. Gay, 18441854; Oliver Johnson, 18631865; A.M. Powell, 18661870.
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Causes of Civil War  Political Parties were forming and dissolving in the 1840s and 1850s ... NOT A FOCUS. Split (but anti-Black). All sections. American. Know-Nothing ... He was elected in 1848. ... In the 1848 election, this third party nominated former President Martin Van Buren to ... I. Economic Prosperity of the 1850s and the Fabulous 40s
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United States presidential election of 1848 - Britannica.com  7, 1848, in which Whig candidate Zachary Taylor defeated Democratic nominee ... William O. Butler, a former Kentucky representative, became the party's vice ... it commanded more than 10 percent of the popular vote and finished second, .... be further edited by our staff, and its publication is subject to our final approval.
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National Negro Convention Movement (1831-1864) | The Black Past ...  After more than a decade of organized abolition among northern free blacks, a group of prominent free African American men organized the National Negro...
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Frederick Douglass's "My Bondage and My Freedom" and the ... - JStor  LISA BRAWLEY I FREDERICK DOUGLASS'S NOVELISTIC LANDSCAPE 99 political and .... disdain for party politics had done little to stop the "slavery party" from toward the ..... defining condition of what he could say publicly as a former slave: he had been ..... that Douglass first describes Lloyd's ship, the Sally Lloyd:.
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Constructing Abolition: Theaters of Protest in American Antislavery ...  Chapter 7: The Quest for Respectability and the Social Origins of Party Politics ________16 ... 183 TABLE OF CONTENTS vi Modern Abolition, 1832-1848 ... 232 Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, & Free Men ...... Under the leadership of Martin Van Buren and Andrew Jackson, the Democratic Party articulated a new...