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.
They all cost a lot more right now.
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.
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.
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.
the states that were against slavery
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California became a free state in 1850, ending the balance of free states and slave states. However, the slave states got a tougher fugitive slave law as a result of California's admission to the Union as a free state.
The Union in the American Civil War represented the free states (meaning slave-free states) plus five border slave states in the north of America. The Confederate States of America (the Confederacy) comprised the eleven southern slave states which had seceded from the United States of America.
Twenty-five states made up the Union during the civil war. These include five slaves states that were referred to as border states. Nevada and West Virginian became states during the Civil War and joined with the Union states.
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There were 19 states in the Union.
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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.
That makes no sense.
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.
15 slave states and 19 free states during the American Civil War
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they fought to preserve the union states to be free.