Those people lived in the border parts during the war.
Well the Union did not like slavery and the south did not so they left to create there own laws and allow slavery.
The Union States (northern and non slavery) and the Confederate State (seceded from the union, southern, and pro slavery).
Lincoln argued that it was wrong to decide whether to allow slavery in a state or territory by voting
Slavery was a states rights issue. The essential problem was if a state had the right to allow slavery when the federal government states it is illegal. We are still arguing the issue today. For Lincoln it was an issue of keeping the union together. Slavery wasn't so much the cause but a emotional and political response of where the power of the federal government stops and the state begins.
Those people lived in the border parts during the war.
vermont
When the state: 1. Freed all of it's slaves. and 2. Agreed to never allow slavery again.
Well the Union did not like slavery and the south did not so they left to create there own laws and allow slavery.
no massachussetts was a union state.
The Union States (northern and non slavery) and the Confederate State (seceded from the union, southern, and pro slavery).
Slavery was the straw that broke the camel's back. It 'pushed the envelope' of the already heated issue of State's Rights- The South held State's Rights (such as choosing whether or not to allow slavery) above national unity, so they succeeded from the union.
Union state in the civil war with is North and was anti slavery
Kansas was a "free" state, therefore it never had slavery. It entered the Union as a "free" state on January 29, 1861.
that the union should have a free state
Missouri. Congress agreed to allow Missouri to join the Union as a slave-state, on condition that no new slave-states were admitted anywhere North of the parallel that marked Missouri's Southern border.
There were four states of the Upper South - Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware - that remained loyal to the Union, and were allowed to continue practising slavery throughout the war. There was also the District of Columbia, where slavery was not outlawed till 1862, and then the new state of West Virginia, which joined the Union in 1863 and continued to practise slavery, though only on a small scale.