The significance of the Free Soil Party in the election of 1848 was that it
a. splintered the two-party political system
b. was the first party to campaign on a promise of an end to slavery
c. introduced the issue of free farmland into a presidential election
d. introduced the issue of free land for a right of way for a transcontinental railroad
Answer: a. splintered the two-party political system
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