The candidates in the 1848 presidential election were Zachary Taylor, Lewis Cass, and Martin Van Buren. This election pressed the issue of slavery because Cass and Van Buren were from states in which slavery was not tolerated. Taylor was a slave owner himself and tried to use his position to appeal to the southern states.
The Whig Party
the rise of the free soil party (n0vanet)
Zachary Taylor
Free-Soil Party
The revolution of 1848 meant the end of king Louis Philippe's rule. The Second Republic was declared, and its Constitution gave much power to a directly elected President. When the election for the Presidency was held in late 1848, Louis Napoleon put forward his candidacy and he went on to win the election, becoming the Republic's President.
The Whig Party
The Whigs and Democrats avoided and evaded the issue of slavery in the election of 1848 by splitting down the middle on who was for and who was against slavery. Whigs and Democrats in the South wanted to keep slavery. Whigs and Democrats in the North wanted to abolish slavery.
The Whigs had to temper their opinions on the Mexican-American War since their candidate, Zachary Taylor, was a war hero. They took on the issue of slavery instead and turned it into the hot button topic of the election.
In the US presidential election of 1848, Zachary Taylor of the Whig Party won the election. Even though he was a slave owner himself, he did not want to expand the practice further into the West.
In the election of 1848, the Democrats chose a platform that remained silent on slavery. Nominee Lewis Cass was pro-slavery, so many anti-slavery Democrats walked out of the Baltimore convention to begin the Free Soil party.
The Whigs had to temper their opinions on the Mexican-American War since their candidate, Zachary Taylor, was a war hero. They took on the issue of slavery instead and turned it into the hot button topic of the election.
In the election of 1848, the Democrats chose a platform that remained silent on slavery, and nominee Lewis Cass was pro-slavery, so many anti-slavery Democrats walked out of the Baltimore convention to begin the Free Soil party.
Free soil Party
In the 1848 election, the Whigs and Democrats were forced to take a stand on slavery because the issue of the expansion of slavery into new territories was becoming increasingly contentious. The Mexican-American war had recently ended, and there was a disagreement over whether slavery should be allowed in the newly acquired territory. This forced both parties to address the issue of slavery in their platforms and appeal to the different factions within their parties.
The rise of the Free-Soil Party.
The rise of the Free-Soil Party.
The rise of the Free-Soil Party.