US History
U.S. History Study Guide
10.30 The Free Soil Party Before the 1848 Election, antislavery advocates united to form the Free-Soil Party and nominated Martin Van Buren for president. The Free-Soil Party consisted of antislavery Whigs, members of the abolitionist Liberty Party, and a faction of the Democratic Party (known as the Barnburners) who supported the Wilmot Proviso. Although the Free-Soil Party did not win any electoral votes, it did earn ten percent of the national popular vote. Van Buren lost the election to Whig candidate Zachary Taylor.
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