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Question 6:Which former President was recruited by Chase for the Free Soil Party?

  • Martin Van Buren

  • John Quincy Adams

  • Andrew Jackson

  • James K. Polk

Answer

Martin Van Buren, the eighth President of the United States, was recruited by Salmon P. Chase for the Free Soil Party. This party was formed in 1848 by anti-slavery members of the Democratic and Whig parties. They believed that slavery should not be allowed to expand into the territories acquired from the Mexican-American War.
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