Help please The northern states were antislavery and the southern states were proslavery. Between 1848 and 1861, blank (two, four, three) states
entered the Union. Black (two, three, none, all)
of these were free states.
The abolitionists faced new challenges with the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
punishments and fines on anyone who interfered with the capture of enslaved people.