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The Free Soil Party. The party was created to stop slavery from expanding into western territories. Later they reformed into the Republican Party.
Free Soil Party- Martin Van Buren
Both were fought between communist northerners and non-communist (free world) southerners.
Republican Party candidate John Fremont
The slogan of the Free Soil Party.
Northerners were most pleased that California was admitted as a free state. The south was pleased that the fugitive slave act REQUIRED assistance in capturing runaway slaves or face imprisonment.
Northerners were most pleased that California was admitted as a free state. The south was pleased that the fugitive slave act REQUIRED assistance in capturing runaway slaves or face imprisonment.
It upset the balance of slave and free states
Northerners favored it because it banned slavery in the land obtained from Mexico, aka the Mexican Cession, thus making another step toward abolishing slavery. They supported this so much, that antislavery northerners created a new party, known as the Free- Soil Party, which supported the Wilmot Proviso. Southerners, however, opposed it, and wanted more land that allows slavery.
Free Soilers
it was god cause they were free
They were not prepared for the courts desicion, and they were shocked and oposed it because they wanted to choose if they were a free state or a slave state. The court decided that dred Scott was not free and he was African American so he was not a citizen and could not sue. When they lived lived in free stated they were not actually pronounced "free". southerners were okay with it but northerners were upset and shocked because they wanted to fight for freedom of slaves. Abe Lincoln spoke out for the slaves.
It upset the balance of slave & free states,
kerala leaders are not pleased with the recent India ASEAN free trade Pact
Angered over the Kansas-Nebraska Act, northerners who were formerly Whigs, dissident Democrats and Free Soilers united to form the Republican party. The new party not only included elements of the parties noted above, but also influences from the Know Nothing Party and Abolitionists.
Slaves were escaping from California to Canada.
Northerners did not want to compete for gold with slaveholders using slave labor or with free blacks.