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Salmon P. Chase moved to Ohio to pursue politics
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Salmon P. Chase's wife dies, sparking his interest in abolition
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Salmon P. Chase creates the free-soil party
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Free-soil party
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Martin Van Buren nominated as presidential candidate for free-soilers
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Compromise of 1850
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John P. Hale nominated as presidential candidate
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Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
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Free-soil party dissolved
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Remnants of the free-soil party create the republican party
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Salmon P. Chase dies
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John P. Hale dies