What Two Meanings Did the Term "Free Soil" Have, in Regard

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Multiple Choice

What two meanings did the term "free soil" have, in regard to the Free Soil Party?

• A) freedom from the existence of slavery in the new territories and government-provided free homesteads for white settlers in these territories
• B) freedom from actual slavery for blacks living in the South and freedom from "wage slavery" for whites living in the North
• C) freedom from the gag rule and from the Fugitive Slave Act
• D) freedom from government intervention in the economy, both in the form of tariffs and through attempts to limit slavery
• E) freedom for all southerners to own slaves and freedom for all northerners to hire low-paid immigrant labor

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