18 states were free states, 15 states were slave states
33 states overall
After the Missouri Compromise of 1821, there were 13 free states and 13 slave states discluding territories. Before the Compromise, there were 12 of each.
There were 12 free states by 1819. (The last one, Illinois, was admitted in December of 1818.)
There were approximately 26 states in the United States by 1821. 13 of them were free states and 13 of them were slave states.
13 free and 13 slave states
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AS YOU CAN SEE, NOT MANY STATES JOINED THE SOUTHERN STATES. MANY JOINED THE NORTHERN STATES !
If the were slaves, by definition they would not have been free.ANSWER:The states that make up the northern part of the United States were free states. None of the northern states allowed slavery during the American Civil War. That's why so many slaves ran to those states - FREEDOM!
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Yes. These were the four slave-states of the Upper South that had voted to stay loyal. Lincoln did not want to upset powerful slave-owners in these states and drive them into the arms of the Confederacy, so he allowed slavery to continue there for the duration of the war. IMPROVEMENT The Border States had altogether 430 929 slaves.
4 States.
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There are 20 free states and 15 slave states in 1850.
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By 1840 there were 26 states making up the United States. That number had expanded to 31 states by 1850.
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It was the subject of many compromises, but it was never settled .
There were fifteen slave states,
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Fifteen
That would be 4 Between 1820 and 1850, eight states were added to the Union: Maine (1820), Missouri (1821), Arkansas (1836), Michigan (1837), Florida (1845), Texas (1845), Iowa (1846), and Wisconsin (1848). Maine, Michigan, Iowa, and Wisconsin were free states, while Missouri, Arkansas, Florida, and Texas were slave states. This maintained the balance between free and slave states.
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