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Could a state decide if it where a slave state or a free state?
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∙ 11y ago
- The answer is yes.
- Well, you see slavery was really big in the South and it was in the North, but most North states got rid of it. Slavery was an unhappy process throughout the past. With Abraham Lincoln's emancipation proclamation is an executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War using his war powers. It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states then in rebellion, thus applying to 3.1 million of the 4 million slaves in the U.S. at that time. The Proclamation immediately freed 50,000 slaves, with nearly all the rest of the 3.1 million freed as Union armies advanced.
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If a slave escaped to a free state was the slave free?
No a slave catcher could come and take them back but in Canada they were free
What stated that California was a free state and the southwest could decide if they wanted slavery before the civil war?
The Compromise of 1850. California was admitted as a free state, and the New Mexico, Utah, Nevada and Arizona territories were all allowed to decide by popular sovereignty if they would be admitted as free or slave states. The compromise also included the Fugitive Slave Act.
What was another name for letting voters decide for themselves whether their state should be a slave or a free state?
Popular Sovereignty
Was kansas a slave state or free state?
it was a free state >3
Why should Congress have the power to decide whether a state is a slave or free state?
Because Congress reflects the wishes of the nation as a whole.
Was Illinois a slave or free state in 1858?
Free what factors lead to Illinois to become a free state.Simply that a slave-state would allow chattel slavery, where a slave was the property of his master; and in a free state, slavery was illegal.
What term means to allow a territory to decide for themselves whether to be a free state or a slave state?
look some where else.
Was Kentucke a free state or a slave state?
Slave state
Popular sovereignty is the belief that?
All government gets its power from the consent of the people it governs
What would decide weather slavery would be allowed in a territory idea of popular sovereignty?
By the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, voters in the US territories would decide whether the "soon to be state" would enter as a free state or a slave state. This Act was the result of Senator Stephan Douglas's ideas to solve the slave-free state crisis.
Did Texas want to join the U.S. as a free state or slave state?
no it was slave free
Was Idaho a slave or free state?
Free state.
