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im pretty sure it was the Missouri compromise.

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Q: What divided the free and slave states?
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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


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


Was Missouri Kentucky and Maryland free or slave states?

Missouri was a slave state. Maryland and Kentucky were slave states.