History of the United States I / Unit 11 USH1 1562 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Free-Soil Party and 1848
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The idea
The Free-Soil Party formed in eighteen forty-eight, uniting Barnburners, antislavery Democrats from New York, with antislavery Whigs and former Liberty Party members.
In practice
The slogan Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free Men.
Where people slip
They nominated Martin Van Buren, split the Democratic vote, and gave the election to the Whig Zachary Taylor.
Your place on the trail
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