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How many free states existed in 1850?
18 states were free states, 15 states were slave states 33 states overall
In 1860 there were 18 free states and 15?
slave states
Was Nebraska a slave state?
Yes, the State Nebraska was organized after the kansas-nebraska compromise. The state was selected as a slave state to balance out the slave states and non slave states since Kansas chose to be a free state.
Did the mason-dixon line separate the north from the south?
Maryland (slave) and Pennsylvania (free soil)
What was the significance of the 36-30 line?
To separate slave and free states
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.
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
Which union states bordered states that seceded where the free or slave states?
The Union states that bordered seceding states included both free and slave states. For instance, Pennsylvania and Ohio were free states that bordered the slave states of Virginia and Kentucky. Additionally, Missouri, which was a border state with divided loyalties, had Union and Confederate sympathizers but was also adjacent to free states like Illinois and Iowa. Thus, the border regions were complex, reflecting a mix of free and slave state dynamics.
Were these border states free or slave states?
The "Border States" were slave states.
What was more densely populated slave or free states?
slave states
How many free and slave states were there?
15 slave states and 19 free states during the American Civil War
Why did congress not want the new states to be slave nor free states?
So the balance of slave to free states were equal in congress
What was the river that divided the free and the slave states?
I'm almost sure it was the Ohio, but that was only on the east side of the Mississippi.
Did states have the right to decide if they were free states or slave states?
Yes but its by votes. Or so they can make the slave states and free states equal by number like Missouri
What did the Bill of rights say about slavery?
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.
How many free states existed in 1850?
18 states were free states, 15 states were slave states 33 states overall
