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Q: What line divided the slave and non slave states before the Civil War?
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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 was the Five slave states before the civil war?

five southern slave states 1. mississippi 2. georgia 3. louisiana 4. alabama 5. texas


How many free and slave states were there?

15 slave states and 19 free states during the American Civil War


What are the slave border states?

The border states were those states that bordered the states that seceded before the Civil War. The border states consisted of Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland, and Missouri.


What are some slave borders in the US?

Should this question be referring to the United States before slavery was abolished in 1865, here are a few slave holding States that bordered on States were slavery was illegal: Slave State Maryland: borders with non slave States of: Pennsylvania and West Virginia; Slave State of Delaware bordering non slave States of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. This is only a short list of slave States bordering non slave States at the time of the US Civil War.


Agreement between slave and non-slave states?

There was no agreement only the Civil War


Till which yesr slave states and free states had civil war?

1865


How did it cause controversy?

How the land would be divided into slave states and free states.


What divided the northern free states from southern slave states?

The Mason &-Dickson line


What are the slave states that didnt secede called?

there isn't really a name for them, they are like any state but they have slavery. you could call them southern slave states or slave states, or southern states...... there is no definition for slave states that didnt secede proir to the civil war


In 1819 before the Missouri Compromise how many free states were there and how many slave states?

In America there was 11 free states and 11 slave states, before the compromise.


Was missouri a southern state in the civil war?

No. It was one of the slave-states that had narrowly voted to stay in the Union. But it was deeply divided all the same, and the scene of much guerrilla warfare.