free state

(noun)

An area in the 18th and 19th century United States in which slavery was prohibited.

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Examples of free state in the following topics:

  • Slavery in the North

    • However, during the decades leading up to the American Civil War, almost all slaves in the North had been emancipated through a series of state legislature statutes, creating the northern "free states" in opposition to southern "slave states."
    • This territory was entirely slave-free from its inception and separated by the Ohio River from the South, which was pushing for an expansion of legal slavery into the West.
    • The concept of "free states" developed in contrast to these "slave states" by the early 19th century.
    • This map illustrates the free states in the United States in 1789, which included Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine.
    • The Northwest Ordinance was also a free territory, though it was not yet incorporated as a state.

  • The Missouri Compromise

    • Admitting Missouri as a slave state also threatened the tenuous balance between free and slave states in the Senate by giving slave states a two-vote advantage.
    • Missouri and Maine (which had been part of Massachusetts) would enter the Union at the same time: Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.
    • The country had been equally divided between eleven slave states and eleven free states.
    • For this reason, northern states wanted Maine admitted as a free state to maintain the balance.
    • This map of the United States, circa 1820, shows the line between free and slave states that was established by the Missouri Compromise of 1820.

  • State That the Project is Free

    • I have seen free software project web sites where the front page not only did not say which particular free license the software was distributed under, but did not even state outright that the software was free at all.
    • State up front, right below the mission statement, that the project is "free software" or "open source software", and give the exact license.

  • Race and Opportunity

    • By 1810, 75 percent of African Americans in the North and 13.5 percent of all African Americans in the United States were free.
    • By 1819, there were exactly 11 free and 11 slave states, which increased sectionalism in the United States.
    • Territories seeking statehood above the line would become free states, and those below the line would become slave states.
    • By 1830, there were 319,000 free African Americans in the United States, 150,000 of whom lived in the Northern states.
    • After his owner refused, he sought relief in the state courts, arguing that by virtue of having lived in areas where slavery was banned, he should be free.

  • Standard Free Energy Changes

    • The standard Gibbs Free Energy is calculated using the free energy of formation of each component of a reaction at standard pressure.
    • The concept of standard states is especially important in the case of free energy, so take a moment to review it.
    • For most practical purposes, the following definitions of standard states are acceptable:
    • Don't confuse these thermodynamic standard states with the "standard temperature and pressure" (STP) widely employed in gas law calculations.
    • The standard Gibbs free energy of formation of a compound is the change of Gibbs free energy that accompanies the formation of 1 mole of that substance from its component elements, at their standard states.

  • The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

    • NAFTA is an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America.
    • The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is an agreement signed by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America.
    • It superseded the Canada – United States Free Trade Agreement between the U.S. and Canada.
    • --Canada trade was already duty free.
    • NAFTA has allowed agricultural goods such as eggs, corn, and meats to be tariff-free.

  • Pressure and Free Energy

    • Gibbs free energy measures the useful work obtainable from a thermodynamic system at a constant temperature and pressure.
    • The Gibbs free energy is the maximum amount of non-expansion work that can be extracted from a closed system.
    • When a system changes from an initial state to a final state, the Gibbs free energy (ΔG) equals the work exchanged by the system with its surroundings, minus the work of the pressure force.
    • Therefore, Gibbs free energy is most useful for thermochemical processes at constant temperature and pressure.

  • Free Blacks in the South

    • Free blacks were an important demographic in the United States, though their rights were often curtailed.
    • A "free Negro" (or "free black"), was the term used prior to the abolition of slavery in the United States to describe African Americans who were not slaves.
    • Many blacks who were elected as either state or local officials during the Reconstruction era in the South had been free in the South prior to the Civil War.
    • Frederick Douglass, an American slave who escaped to the North, earned his education, and led the abolitionist movement in the United States.
    • Freedom's Journal was the first African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States.

  • The Free Exercise Clause: Freedom of Religion

    • The Free Exercise Clause is the accompanying clause with the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
    • The Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause together read:" Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
    • Thus, the Establishment Clause prevents the US from establishing or advocating for a specific religion, while the Free Exercise clause is intended to ensure the rights of Americans to practice their religions without state intervention .
    • United States, as related to the prosecution of polygamy under federal law.
    • Examining a state prohibition on the use of peyote, the Supreme Court upheld the law despite the drug's use as part of a religious ritual .

  • Free Enterprise

    • A free-enterprise system is based on private ownership as the means of production.
    • Political scientist Ian Bremmer describes China as the primary driver for the rise of state capitalism as a challenge to the free market economies of the developed world, particularly in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.
    • Bremmer states, "In this system, governments use various kinds of state-owned companies to manage the exploitation of resources that they consider the state's crown jewels and to create and maintain large numbers of jobs.
    • The extent to which different markets are free, as well as the rules defining private property, is a matter of politics and policy.
    • Explain how free enterprise leads to the economic system of capitalism