What dose metic mean in social studies I really need help.

Metic, Greek Metoikos, in ancient Greece, any of the resident aliens, including freed slaves. ... Metics were found in most states except Sparta. In Athens, where they were most numerous, they occupied an intermediate position between visiting foreigners and citizens, having both privileges and duties.

Explanation:

sectionalism continues to divide the nation as the question of slavery being allowed in the mexican cession became a problem. -the results of the mexican war spark secession in the south because the north did not want to allow slavery in the territories won.