Free-Soil Party: Quick Facts

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Date	1848 - 1854
Areas Of Involvement	slavery
Related People	Martin Van Buren • Francis Preston Blair, Jr. • Charles Francis Adams • Salmon P. Chase • George W. Julian • Ebenezer R. Hoar • Henry Wilson • John Parker Hale • John Albion Andrew

The Wilmot Proviso was an amendment to a spending bill in Congress.
Members of the Free Soil party later helped found the Republican Party.
Free Soils nominee Martin Van Buren ran with the son of John Quincy Adams, Charles Francis Adams.

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