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Before the Civil War, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia (West Virginia was not an independent state yet) allowed slavery.
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The Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Lincoln freed?
Only the slaves in the southern, seceded states. He needed the support of northern slaveholding states to win the Civil War.
2 states were not officially states at the beginning of the civil war?
Kansas. West Virginia.
What sparked the beginning of the Civil War?
Southern states seceded from the Union
What was the main goal of the north in the beginning the civil war?
to bring the southern states to the union
What was the main goal of North in the beginning of the civil war?
to bring the southern states to the union
How did the south states seceded before civil war?
South Carolina seceded from the Union before the Civil War.
How the American Civil War was both an end and a beginning of something?
The end of slavery and states rights, and the beginning of racism and southern poverty
According to the original Constitution of the United states how were slaves counted?
According to the original U.S. Constitution, specifically Article I, Section 2, slaves were counted as three-fifths of a person for purposes of representation in Congress and taxation. This compromise was reached to balance the political power between slaveholding and non-slaveholding states. It was a contentious issue that reflected the deep divisions over slavery in the United States. The three-fifths compromise was effectively nullified by the 14th Amendment after the Civil War.
What state or states were neutral in the beginning of the civil war?
Kentucky was allowed to stay neutral at the beginning - Lincoln was worried about driving it into the arms of the Confederacy.
Before the beginning of the US Civil War which states were slaveholding states?
Texas, Lousiana, Arkansas, Missouri; Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia; Tennessee, Kentucky; Maryland, Delaware; The District of Columbia, although not a state, permitted slavery. Nearly all of the states had slavery as an accepted practice at some point, though most of the northern states had banned it by 1800.
Was the Civil War a war to end slavery from the beginning?
No. The root causes of the American Civil War were economic (taxation) and political (states' rights).
How many States were in the Union before the start of the US Civil War?
There were 34 States in the Union when the Civil War began.
