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Which describes what Free-Soilers wanted for western lands?
Free-Soilers wanted popular sovereignty to determine the slave issue.
Free-Soilers wanted slavery to be outlawed in western lands.
Free-Soilers wanted western lands to go to farmers, rather than slave owners.
Free-Soilers wanted slavery to be legal in western lands, along with the slave trade.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Free-Soilers wanted western lands to go to farmers, rather than slave owners.

They opposed the expansion of slavery into the territories so that land and opportunity would be reserved for free (mostly white) farmers and free labor, not for plantation slavery.