The two-party system has only made things worse. In the years before the Civil War, there was an issue ... Three third parties — the Liberty Party, Free Soil Party and finally the Republican ...

“In an instant , the House was in the greatest possible confusion,” the Congressional Globe reported, as Northern Republicans and members of the short-lived Free Soil Party joined ranks ...

Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and America ...

Even before the Civil War, Fremont was already a hero ... presidential candidate for the new Republican Party. He ran on a ticket of “Free Soil, Free Men and Fremont.” Democrats rallied ...