Mason Dixon line
The Mason-Dixon line
Mason Dixon Line
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.
Maryland (slave) and Pennsylvania (free soil)
The "Border States" were slave states.
slave states
15 slave states and 19 free states during the American Civil War
So the balance of slave to free states were equal in congress
The Mason-Dixon Line is the invisible line that historically separated the northern and southern states in the United States. It was surveyed in the 1760s and came to represent the cultural and political divide between the free states in the North and the slave states in the South.
Yes but its by votes. Or so they can make the slave states and free states equal by number like Missouri
they made an agreement. there was acertian degrees to slave states and free states. the nourth is the free states and the south is the slave states.
18 states were free states, 15 states were slave states 33 states overall