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- During the civil war, there were slave states that did not secede from the union. These states were Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, , Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
- Though every slave state except South Carolina contributed white battalions to both the Union and Confederate armies (South Carolina Unionists fought in units from other Union states), the split was most severe in these border states. Sometimes men from the same family fought on opposite sides
- Harriet Tubman, helped hundreds of runaway slaves escape to freedom. She never lost one of them along the way. She was a slave herself so she knew what she was doing
- Missouri’s application triggered an uproar. If Missouri were admitted, the balance would be gone. After months of debate, the Missouri Compromise saved the day: Missouri would be admitted as a slave state, and a new state—Maine—would be created as a free state.
- As part of the bargain, slave trading would become illegal in Washington, D.C., the nation’s largest slave market. But a new Fugitive Slave Act penalized citizens for helping runaway slaves and required them to cooperate with the process of returning slaves to their owners. All of this kept the nation together.
- Even though gradual emancipation statutes left a handful of individuals in bondage down to the time of the Civil War, from 1817 onward, every state in the northern and western United States had committed itself to a future without slavery.
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