JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
MARTIN VAN BUREN
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A party that was all about liberty and freedom for all
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A party that had a single issue they stood for which, was the freedom of the slaves
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Single issue third party who desired to remove all tariffs
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None of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -The party was an early advocate of the abolitionist cause and it broke away from the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) to advocate the view that the Constitution was an anti-slavery document.
Detailed explanation-2: -Liberty Party, U.S. political party (1840–48) created by abolitionists who believed in political action to further antislavery goals.
Detailed explanation-3: -The FREE SOIL PARTY of Cuyahoga County was organized in the summer of 1848 as part of a national third-party movement which supported free grants of public land to settlers and opposed the extension of slavery to the western territories.
Detailed explanation-4: -One prominent abolitionist group of this time formed its own political third party, called The Liberty Party of 1840. This Party wanted to work within the political system to abolish slavery. Though it did not achieve its loftiest political goals, the Liberty Party helped to garner more national support for abolition.