Concept information
Preferred term
Free Soil Party
Definition
- THEFREESOIL Party was a political party that opposed the expansion of slavery into the western territories. The party was originally a splinter of the Democratic Party, but many of its members would eventually drift into the newly-formed Republican Party in 1854. [Source: Encyclopedia of U.S. Campaigns, Elections, and Electoral Behavior; Free Soil Party]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Free_Soil_Party
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