As of 1818, the US had eleven free states. They were Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont and New Hampshire.The eleven slave states were Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Maryland and Delaware.
There were a total of 33 states in the US in 1860. The number of slave states were 15 in 1860.
12
there were 12 free states and 12 slave states.
Missouri, Arkansas, Flordia, and Texas
There were49,Because one of the states was Free
There are 20 free states and 15 slave states in 1850.
Mainly because it toughened-up the Fugitive Slave Act, allowing official slave-catchers to hunt down runaways. This recruited many new Abolitionists, and caused Harriet Beecher Stowe to write 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'.
there were 12 free states and 12 slave states.
There were 16 free states
That would be 4 Between 1820 and 1850, eight states were added to the Union: Maine (1820), Missouri (1821), Arkansas (1836), Michigan (1837), Florida (1845), Texas (1845), Iowa (1846), and Wisconsin (1848). Maine, Michigan, Iowa, and Wisconsin were free states, while Missouri, Arkansas, Florida, and Texas were slave states. This maintained the balance between free and slave states.
15 slave states and 19 free states during the American Civil War
In America there was 11 free states and 11 slave states, before the compromise.
In 1820, there was growing complaints against slavery. Many in the northern states were opposed to slavery and those in southern states saw it as an economic necessity. To keep the balance of free and slave states, Missouri was added as a slave state and Maine as a free state. This measure helped delay the Civil War.
15 free states
There were 12 slave states after the Missouri Compromise and 12 free states.
Missouri, Arkansas, Flordia, and Texas
15
If its the end of slavery then all of the states were free
18 states were free states, 15 states were slave states 33 states overall