1.) Began a protest meeting in Ripon, Wisconsin, on 28 February 1854.
2.) Free Soilers met to start a new grassroots movement.
3.) On July 6th, the first party convention took place in Jackson, Michigan.
4.) Martin Van Buren ran unsuccessfully for the presidency on the Free Soil Party ticket in 1848.
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