41. With the secession of several Southern slave states , Gorman offered his services to the army. 42. A former slave state , it became dominated by Democrats. 43. Will she join the arrondissement of the slave States ? 44. Lincoln expressed the fear that the next Dred Scott decision would make Illinois a slave state . 45. Grant predictably lost in six former slave states that wanted to see an end to Reconstruction. 46. Four more slave states then joined the Confederacy. 47. President James Buchanan and his Southern allies tried to get Kansas admitted as a slave state . 48. He strenuously opposed admitting Texas to the Union because it would bring in another slave state . 49. Territories and states near the slave states did not welcome free blacks to settle with them. 50. Slave states had developed into feudal societies.
