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Illinois Iowa Wisconsin Michigan Indiana Ohio Pennsylvania New York Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island Maine Vermont New Hampshire were all the Free states at this time. The free "territories" were Minnesota Washington and Oregon. California was also a free state.

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Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Minnesota, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Washington D.C. All the states in the North and West Virginia separated from Virginia in 1861 and joined the Union in 1863. The Union are free states. Confederate states are slave states and North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Arkansas were slave states that seceded. Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri and Marry land were slave states that did not join the confederacy.

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The 19 states in the union that were free states are: Oregon, California, Kansas, Michigan, Wisconcin, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, West Virginia, New York, Pennsylvania, Maine, Vermont, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Connecticut, Iowa, and New Hampshire.

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Maine was added as a free state. Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

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the states that were against slavery

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Number of states in the Union during 1861?

There were 19 states in the Union.


How many free state stayed in the union?

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Which had greater number of states confederate or US?

At the outbreak of the US Civil War in 1861, the United States consisted of 19 free States and 15 slave States. Eleven slave States withdrew from the Union and made up the Confederate States of America. The Union had the greater number of States and among these States, several of them, plus Washington DC, were loyal to the Union but had slaves until the War's end in 1865.


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What states did the emancipation of proclamation free the slaves?

That proclamation had little effect, other than symbolic, because the states that accepted the proclamation were the Union States, which were free states, anyhow. The Confederate States did not accept the jurisdiction of the Union government.


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At the beginning of the Civil War, the Union had 19 states, not including the four border states that did not secede. The Confederacy had only 11.


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Why did the northerns fight?

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