"Conscience Whigs" Joined the Free-Soil Party During the 1848 Election

question 33

Multiple Choice

"Conscience Whigs" joined the Free-Soil Party during the 1848 election because they

• A) refused to support a slaveholder as their party's candidate
• B) favored the moderate position of only opposing the extension of slavery into the West
• C) disagreed with the Whigs' view that their candidate was a war hero
• D) supported Texas as a slave state

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