The Free Soil candidates won 10% of the popular vote in 1848 but no electoral votes, in part because the nomination of Van Buren discouraged many anti-slavery Whigs from supporting them. ... The Compromise of 1850 temporarily neutralized the issue of slavery and undercut the party's no-compromise position.
B: Confucius lived during the Zhou Dynasty (551B.C - 479B.C approx).
<span>I would say increased desire for trade, because the Commercial Revolution is when Europe went for colonialism, imperialism. They found out all the different types of materials each country elsewhere had to offer.</span>
