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.
Free state.
Slave
Slave state
Mississippi was a slave state until the end of the Civil War.
it was a free state >3
A slave state, which seceded from the Union on April 17, 1861. The western portion of Virginia did not wish to secede from the Union in 1861 and broke away to form its own state on June 20, 1863. West Virgina was part of the Union on June 20, 1863, and thus a free state, and the 35th state.
Slave state
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.
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.
Yes it was a slave state
Slave
it was a free state
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.