History A-Level
Free-soilers
What Free-soilers means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Free-soilers
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Northern opponents of the extension of slavery into the newly acquired territories, who supported expansion but not slavery within it.
Topics that use Free-soilers
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