slave state
Servitude-permitting territory
A slave state was a U.S. state where slavery was legal before the Civil War.
The term distinguished Southern states from free states in the North, particularly in debates over admitting new territories: The Missouri Compromise maintained balance between slave states and free states.
The designation became obsolete after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in 1865.
Formal withdrawal from union
- ConfederacySecessionist Southern government
- Missouri Compromise1820 slavery boundary legislation
- Compromise of 1850Five bills balancing slave-state interests
- Dred ScottAntebellum freedom-suit plaintiff
Kansas-Nebraska Act · popular sovereignty · nullification · fire-eaters · secessionist · proslavery · disunion · three-fifths compromise
Mid-Atlantic American state
- South CarolinaSoutheastern Atlantic coastal state
- GeorgiaName shared by country and state
- AlabamaDeep South state
- MississippiSouthern state or major river
Louisiana · Texas · Arkansas · Tennessee · North Carolina · Missouri · Kentucky · Maryland
Countrymen fighting countrymen
- UnionNamed political entity
- Abraham LincolnCivil War era leader
- Emancipation ProclamationExecutive order freeing Confederate slaves
- 13th AmendmentConstitutional slavery prohibition
Reconstruction · Underground Railroad · Harriet Tubman · Frederick Douglass · John Brown · Harpers Ferry · polarization · abolitionism
Large-scale farming operation
- slaveholderOwner of enslaved persons
- cottonPlant fiber for textiles
- tobaccoDried smoking leaf
- overseerOne who monitors work
chattel · bondage · auction block · field hand · manumission · abolitionist · fugitive · contraband
secession
Formal withdrawal from union
- ConfederacySecessionist Southern government
- Missouri Compromise1820 slavery boundary legislation
- Compromise of 1850Five bills balancing slave-state interests
Dred Scott · Kansas-Nebraska Act · popular sovereignty · nullification · fire-eaters · secessionist · proslavery · disunion · three-fifths compromise · representation
Virginia
Mid-Atlantic American state
- South CarolinaSoutheastern Atlantic coastal state
- GeorgiaName shared by country and state
- AlabamaDeep South state
Mississippi · Louisiana · Texas · Arkansas · Tennessee · North Carolina · Missouri · Kentucky · Maryland · Delaware
Civil War
Countrymen fighting countrymen
- UnionNamed political entity
- Abraham LincolnCivil War era leader
- Emancipation ProclamationExecutive order freeing Confederate slaves
13th Amendment · Reconstruction · Underground Railroad · Harriet Tubman · Frederick Douglass · John Brown · Harpers Ferry · polarization · abolitionism · division
plantation
Large-scale farming operation
- slaveholderOwner of enslaved persons
- cottonPlant fiber for textiles
- tobaccoDried smoking leaf
overseer · chattel · bondage · auction block · field hand · manumission · abolitionist · fugitive · contraband · breeding
- Antebellum Americaantebellum era, Compromise of 1850, sectionalism, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Missouri Compromise
- Bleeding KansasFree-Staters, John Brown, Kansas-Nebraska Act, popular sovereignty, bushwhackers
- governmentsdemocracy, monarchy, autocracy, oligarchy, republic