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What was the name of the party that dissolved in the mid-1850s which Wilson was a part of?

  • Whig Party

  • Free Soil Party

  • Democratic Party

  • Constitutional Union Party

Answer

The Free Soil Party was an American political party that formed in 1848 to oppose the expansion of slavery into the territories acquired from the Mexican–American War. The party was led by anti-slavery activists such as Salmon P. Chase and James Gillespie Birney, and it advocated free soil, free labor, and free men.
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