Free-Soil Party Timeline

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  • Salmon P. Chase moved to Ohio to pursue politics

  • Salmon P. Chase's wife dies, sparking his interest in abolition

  • Salmon P. Chase creates the free-soil party

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  • Martin Van Buren nominated as presidential candidate for free-soilers

  • Compromise of 1850

  • John P. Hale nominated as presidential candidate

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

  • Free-soil party dissolved

  • Remnants of the free-soil party create the republican party

  • Salmon P. Chase dies

  • John P. Hale dies