USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865

END OF THE CIVIL WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
____ states wanted the new states created out of the western territory to be “free states”
A
Western
B
Southern
C
Northern
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The states created from the territory – Ohio (1803), Indiana (1816), Illinois (1818), Michigan (1837), Iowa (1846), Wisconsin (1848), and Minnesota (1858) – were all free states.

Detailed explanation-2: -Kansas entered the union as a “free state, ” because of the Kansas-Nebraska Act that allowed the residents to decide if their state would allow slavery.

Detailed explanation-3: -the North, region, northern United States, historically identified as the free states that opposed slavery and the Confederacy during the American Civil War.

Detailed explanation-4: -Considered one of the most important legislative acts of the Confederation Congress, the Northwest Ordinance also protected civil liberties and outlawed slavery in the new territories.

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