See Related Links (Home Alone Children and Legal Age Limits) for listing of states with laws and guidelines.
Delaware (perhaps the most overlooked border state), Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri were the border states that did not secede from the Union.
The main problem in Homecoming is that The Tillerman children's mother abandoned them, and they are struggling to find a place when they can live and belong.
Missouri Missouri joined the United States as the 24th state in 1821.
On the Confederate side: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. On the Union side: California, Oregon, Nevada, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio, W. Virginia, Maryland, Deleware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Conneticut, New York, Rhode Island, Massachussets, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. The Union also controlled all the western territories: Washington Territory, Dakota Territory, Nevada Territory, Utah Territory, Nebraska Territory, Colorado Territory, New Mexico Territory, and the Indian Territory.
Missouri
Missouri was a slave state. Maryland and Kentucky were slave states.
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Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware…
Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland all border Confederate states.
Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and Missouri
Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland
Borders do not secede but states do. Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri were border states that did not secede in the union.
Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri
Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware.
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri.
The US states of Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware were known as border states. They did not join the Confederacy and were still slave states.