Free Soil Party Analysis

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The utilization of popular sovereignty during presidential election of 1848 was not satisfying the Democrat or Whig parties, so the Democrats started a new political party called the Free Soil Party. This new party nominated former president Martin Van Buren as the head and focused mainly on the principles of the Wilmot Proviso. Although the members of the party were anti-southern that did not mean that they were abolitionists. Their main issue was with southern slave owners whom they believed were halting the development of northern progress. Similar to the Wilmot Proviso, northerners did not want the wealthy southern slave owners to take advantage of the new lands in the west. Free Soilers were wanting the land in the West for ambitious white