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How many free and slave states were there?
15 slave states and 19 free states during the American Civil War
Did living in a free state mean a slave was free?
No. The Dred Scott decision basically said all the states of the USA were slave states and a slave in a "free" state was still a slave. The Dred Scott decision helped to lead to the Civil War.
Union means north or south during the civil war?
The Union in the American Civil War represented the free states (meaning slave-free states) plus five border slave states in the north of America. The Confederate States of America (the Confederacy) comprised the eleven southern slave states which had seceded from the United States of America.
Why is Ohio a free slave state?
It was Union Civil War days. All Northern states were free.
Why was the civil war faught?
becous the north wantes free states and south wanted slave states
What was the river that separated the free states and the slave states during the civil war?
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.
What issues and events shattered the nation's unity and led to civil war?
Fugitive slave act in 1850 along with government control toward slave states and slave free states.
What where the slave states and the free states?
Slave StatesTexasMontanaArkansasLouisianaMississippiKentuckyTennesseeAlabamaGeorgiaFloridaSouth CarolinaNorth CarolinaVirginiaMarylandDelawareFree StatesCaliforniaOregonMinnesotaIowaWisconsinIllinoisMichiganOhioPennsylvaniaNew YorkVermontMaineNew HampshireMassachusettsRhode IslandConnecticutNew JerseyThe rest weren't organized enough to be considered slave states or free states.Montana was not a slave state or a state of any kind during the Civil War. Missouri, however, was a Slave State that did not secede.
Was New York a slave or free state in the civil war?
It was a free state. Only the south were slave states.
What are the Union states of the Civil War?
All the free states, plus four slave-states that did not vote Confederate and chose to stay loyal.
Which large river formed part of the border between free states and slave states at the time of the civil war?
The Mississippi River.
Which large river formed part of the border between free states and slave states at the time of the time of the Civil War?
The Ohio
