Gracious sakes, were you asleep for all of 5th grade? Kentucky was a slave state that didn't secede during the Civil War. Such states are called "border states" and include Missouri, Maryland, and even Delaware. West Virginia was taken from Virginia in 1863, but that region had little or no slavery.
free state
During the Civil War, Oregon was a free state.
no, because it was admitted after the civil war ended
The two slave states from which a slave could escape directly across the Ohio River into a free state are Kentucky and West Virginia. Kentucky is located to the south of the Ohio River, while West Virginia, which was part of Virginia during the antebellum period, lies to the east. Both states provided routes for escaped slaves seeking freedom in Ohio, which was a free state.
It was a slave state and was made a state in 1792.
Missouri was a slave state. Maryland and Kentucky were slave states.
Gracious sakes, were you asleep for all of 5th grade? Kentucky was a slave state that didn't secede during the Civil War. Such states are called "border states" and include Missouri, Maryland, and even Delaware. West Virginia was taken from Virginia in 1863, but that region had little or no slavery.
a slave state
free state
During the Civil War, Oregon was a free state.
Free
Mississippi was a slave state until the end of the Civil War.
no, because it was admitted after the civil war ended
It was a free state. Only the south were slave states.
Hawaii wasn't a state during the Civil War.
Montana was not a part of the contingent United States at the time of the Civil War; thus, it was neither a free state nor a slave state during the 1800s.