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How did the Free-Soil Party play a significant role in politics before the Civil War?
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For the first time, a third party was not organized as a single-issue party. The Free Soil Party had four principle planks in its platform:
(1) the prohibition of the extension of slavery into the free territories;
(2) the free distribution of land to actual settlers;
(3) internal improvements at federal expense;
(4) a protective tariff
However, the Free Soil Party was a sectional northern party, not on the ballot in the southern states. The Free Soil ticket was impressive: former president Martin Van Buran and Charles Francis Adams, the son and grandson of the two former president Adams. They garnished ten percent of the popular vote, the best showing by a third party. Enough Democrats, especially in New York, deserted Lewis Cass, the Democratic nominee, to give the election to the Whig candidate, Zachary Taylor. Aside from this fact, the party was unconstitutional, because Congress did not have the right to exclude slavery from the territories.
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