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The Union states were free except:

Maryland

Delaware

Missouri

and Kentucky

So the free Union states were Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, California and Oregon. Nevada entered the Union as a free state during the Civil War.

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What did the southerners justified secession with the theory of?

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What led to the Missouri compromise and what did it achieve?

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Why did some states enter the union a free states?

That makes no sense.


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.


Which union states bordered states that seceded where the free or slave states?

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It upset the balance of slave & free states,


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They said the original United States had been formed voluntarily, and that the member-states were free to quit the Union if they wanted.


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The area of the US made up of free states?

Union