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most members of the free-soil party opposed the spread of slavery because they believed that

OpenStudy (anonymous):

...newly acquired "free lands", as the US expanded, should be worked by free men. Basically, they said new territories and states shouldn't have slavery, but they stopped short of saying that all slavery should be abolished believing that it would eventually die out in those places where it was being practiced (such as the South at the time).

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