Question

The Free-Soil Party’s platform could best be described as
(A) opposing the expansion of slavery into western territories
(B) calling for the expansion of the Homestead Act, providing cheaper
land sales in the West
(C) calling for the restriction of immigrants coming into the United
States
(D) advocating the notion of popular sovereignty in western territories
(E) opposing protective tariff s and high domestic excise taxes

Answer 1

The Free-Soil Party’s platform could best be described as "(A) opposing the expansion of slavery into western territories," since the question of whether or not newly-admitted states in the US would be "slave" or "free" was that main issue that led to the Civil War.