When Americans think of African-Americans in the DEEP SOUTH before the Civil War, the first image that invariably comes to mind is one of slavery. However, many African-Americans were able to secure their freedom and live in a state of semi-freedom even before slavery was abolished by war. FREE BLACKS lived in all parts of the United States, but the majority lived amid slavery in the American South. According to the 1860 U.S. Census, there were 250,787 free blacks living in the South in contrast to 225,961 free blacks living everywhere else in the country including the Midwest and the Far West; however, not everyone, particularly free blacks, were captured by census takers. In the upper south, the largest population of free blacks were in Maryland and Virginia; in the mid-Atlantic, the largest population of free blacks was in Philadelphia.
 
        
             
        
        
        
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It was to keep the balance between slave and non slave states as to not spread the practice of slavery more. It allowed missouri to be a slave state as long as maine was a free state. 
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I believe it is A
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The Vietnam war was during the 20th century and one of the first independent countries in Africa was during the 1840s, which would also knock out options D and C. I really hope this helps :)
 
        
                    
             
        
        
        
Mao Zedong believed that peasants would make true revolutionaries because the peasantry force is comparable to intense wind and raging rain. It is increasing violence rapidly. No other force that can stop them. Their force will destroy all nets that bonded it and continue to their liberation. They will conceal underneath the militarism, imperialism, evilness, and corruption.
 
        
             
        
        
        
4 the Spanish galleons because the Spanish galleons was large ships that carried treasure