Answer;
to ensure that Kansas voted to become a free state
Explanation;
-The Free soil party was a a political party organized in 1848 on a platform opposing the extension of slavery, was rooted in the growing conflict between pro-slavery and antislavery forces in the United States.
-The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the duel over whether Kansas was to be a free or a slave state turned the North irrevocably toward free soil.
-In 1855, Kansans elected a territorial legislature, deciding in effect whether the future of Kansas would be slave or free. Seeking to establish Kansas as a state without slavery, antislavery settlers from Massachusetts, upstate New York, Ohio's Western Reserve, and Iowa became known as “Free-Soilers.”
