The Confederacy was not a state. It was a group of states that declared themselves as a nation separate from the United States. The states that joined it were slave states.
In 1803, Ohio became the first non-slave state out of the northwest territories. Citizens were divided on the subject, but it was an official non-slave state.
A slave state.
It was a slave-state that had voted against joining the Confederacy. Lincoln allowed it to remain neutral at the beginning of the war. When the Confederates under Braxton Bragg invaded, he was able to set-up a Confederate government, but it collapsed as soon as he left.
North Carolina was a slave State
a slave state
No, it was a slave-state that had narrowly voted against joining the Confederacy.
The Potomac divided the Confederacy from the Union, although Maryland was a slave-state, and so was DC at the beginning. The Ohio River divided the slave-states from free soil.
it was a free state >3
Slave state
North Carolina was a slave state at the beginning of the Civil War and became a part of the Confederacy.
They were not in favor of succeeding
Yes. The Dred Scott case occurred because a slave owner took his slave, Dred Scott, to the free state of Minnesota with him and then left. The slave tried to sue for his freedom claiming that having been in the free state his master no longer had claim over him once they were in that state. The Minnesota volunteers also played a role in the Union's fight against the Confederacy duing the Civil War.
no it was slave free
Free state.
No, according to the fugitive slave laws, escaped slaves were not automatically free. The laws required that escaped slaves be returned to their owners, even if they reached a free state. This often led to contentious legal battles and resistance from abolitionists.
after seceding from Virgina west Virginia became a slave state A2 The above answer is incorrect. The Western part of Virginia left Virginia(during the civil war) to become a free state and is now called West Virginia. The remaining part of Virginia (what we now call Virginia) sided with the confederacy.
Yes it was a slave state