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Name: ______________________________
Activities
Date: __________
Slave and Free Territory
Use the information provided on the map to answer the following questions.
1. Was Texas a free state or a slave state during this period?
2. What compromise enabled Maine to enter the Union as a free state?
3. How many territories were in the United States during this period?
4. How many more free states were there than slave states?
5. Which two territories are on the northern border of Texas?
6. Were the following states free states or slave states?
New Jersey ________________
Pennsylvania _____________________
Florida ___________________
Virginia _________________________
Alabama __________________
Missouri _________________________
7. Which territories shared a border with Missouri?
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8. List the slave states that bordered Pennsylvania.
9. What was the only territory that bordered both a free and slave state?
10.What body of water was bordered only by territories and free states?
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