Were the New England states free states or slave states?
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Free..bet my life on it
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Good job! Evidently, you've done your homework! \n\nMany aren't aware that the American Civil War was "NOT" about slavery. Nor are many aware that slaves were still being held as private property in the North during that time. Abraham Lincoln owned a slave during the war, and Union General U.S. Grant owned 4. \n\nThe war was, from the Southern standpoint, over States Rights, i.e., a state had authority over the federal government within it's own borders. And also, to defend against an illegal military invasion from the North. \n\nBut it's always the victors in war that write the history, isn't it?
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There wasn't much population in the south then.  Most of the battles were in the north, from Virginia to New York to Connecticut and Massachusetts, mainly.
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America because it is the land of the free.
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Unlike the rest of the colonies, in Connecticut and Rhode Island the people of the state elected the governor, and, aside from the Navigation and a few other restrictive laws, were practically independent of the Crown. The legislature was bicameral. The respresentative system of government was common to all the colonies.\n\nConnecticut and Rhode Island were chartered (the corporate was the same as the charter form) colonies.
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Because they were arguing over whether new states would permit slavery.
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Slaves in both the Confederate States of America and the United States of America continued serving their masters. Many slaves in both went to war with their owners, others continued their servitude in their occupations prior to the war. Slave owners in the United States were not forced to free their slaves by the Emancipation Proclomation and contiuned to work their slaves until the conclusion of the war.
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Are you kidding? Republicans did not free the slaves. Check your history... And I know Lincoln was a Republican, but he did not free the slaves. Read a book.
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Its where the states got to chose if they wanted to be a slave state or a free state. I'm studing the SAME THING!!! Good luck!! =)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas-Nebraska_Act\n\nIt was a compromise between free state and slave state supporters that left the decicison of slavery up to each of the two new territories.\n\nIn Kansas it would probably be considered "unfair" (which is a very subjective word) because during the initial election for a slave/free state constitution many, many men from Missouri (slave state) came over into Kansas and voted for the slave state constitution.
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At the point in time when the colonies were developing, they used water power! New England had plenty of streams and rivers. Its shoreline and oak forest aided the shipbuilding industry.
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The American Revolution is the series of events, ideas, and changes that resulted in the political separation of thirteen colonies in North America from the British Empire and the creation of the United States of America. The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) was one part of the revolution, but the revolution began before the first shot was fired at Lexington and Concord and continued after the British surrender at Yorktown. "The Revolution was effected before the War commenced," wrote John Adams. "The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people."
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Massachusetts- 1788\nRhode Island- 1790\nConnecticut- 1788\nNew Hampshire- 1788\nNew York- 1788\nDelaware- 1787\nNew Jersey- 1787\nPennsylvania- 1787\nVirginia- 1788\nMaryland- 1788\nNorth Carolina- 1789\nSouth Carolina- 1788\nGeorgia- 1788
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Mason and Dickson were Geographers who surveyed the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland, this became known as the Mason Dickson line.\n\nPennsylvania is the southern most Free state and Maryland is the northern most Slave state so it was used as a guide to who is in whose territory North or South.\n\nIt was not the line that separated the USA and CSA because Maryland did not Break off from the Union....Washington D.C. is south of the Mason Dickson, It shows the boundary where people south of it consider themselves southern and north of it consider themselves northern.
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Any of the other 37. And, Maine, which was part of Massachusetts until 1820, so doesn't count as one of the original 13.
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In the 1840s things started heating up between North and South over general states' rights against the rights of the federal government. The issues adressed generally dealt immediatly with slaves. New states admitted to the Union had to be judged as "slave states" (slaves allowed) or "free states" (slavery prohibited). \n\nBoth sides wanted new states to be whichever side they favored because it would give them more legislative power in the US Congress. This led to bloodshed in many areas, particularly in Kansas, which became known as "Bloody Kansas". \n\nIn 1861, South Carolina seceded from the Union (said they werent part of the US any more) and started seizing federal property, including arms and munitions. \n\nOther states started seceding as well. Soon the seceded states formed what they called the "Confederate States of America", which came to be headed by Jefferson Davis as President. They attacked Fort Sumner in South Carolina and seized the fort, capturing it's inhabitants. This was treason.\n\nAbraham Lincoln (President of the US) immediatly called for 75,000 troops to put down the uprising. Then the Civil War started, eventually involving millions of troops. 600,000 men eventually died in the conflict, and the US was shattered for decades after the war. Remember, this war was fought to unite the Union, NOT for slavery. In fact, slavery was only addressed in 1862 when Lincoln set forth the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves in the Confederate states. By 1863 there were armed black soldiers in Union armies, serving with distinction. In 1865 the CSA tried to use black troops, but they were destroyed before the plan could be implemented.\n\nIn 1865 the final Confederate forces surrendered (General Johnston was the last to surrender, but with the surrender of General Robert E. Lee the war was pretty much over). Richmond, VA, the Confederate capital, was seized. \n\nLincoln began steps to rebuild and reunite the US. He planned to be kind to the newly reunited South and not punish them for seceding. Before he could start, he was killed by a man named John Wilkes Booth. \n\nThe years following became years of anger and hate for Southerners. The North oppressed and punished Southern insurrection with high taxes and legal oversight. This period became known as Reconstruction, and it really only ended around the 1970s, one century after it started.\n\nHope I helped,\nThe Wise One\n\nP.S. For more information check out http://www.wikipedia.com\nThey are pretty good, but it's better to read books...however that takes more time than I think you want to spend.
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Contemporaneous documents almost always listed the colonies in geographical order, roughly from north to south, as follows (the division into three regions is a later construct of historians, though New England was always considered to be a distinct region):\n\nNew England: \nProvince of New Hampshire, later New Hampshire \nProvince of Massachusetts Bay, later Massachusetts and Maine \nColony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, later Rhode Island and Providence Plantations \nConnecticut Colony, later Connecticut \nMiddle Colonies: \nProvince of New York, later New York and Vermont \nProvince of New Jersey, later New Jersey \nProvince of Pennsylvania, later Pennsylvania \nDelaware Colony (before 1776, the Lower Counties on Delaware), later Delaware \nCheasapeake Colonies: \nProvince of Maryland, later Maryland \nColony and Dominion of Virginia, later Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia \nSouthern Colonies: \nProvince of North Carolina, later North Carolina and Tennessee \nProvince of South Carolina, later South Carolina \nProvince of Georgia, later Georgia