Because if they'd voted the other way, the balance would have tilted seriously against the Union, and if Maryland had gone Confederate, Washington DC would have been totally surrounded by enemy states.
It tilted the balance crucially in favour of the North - especially as one of the buffer-states was Maryland, which enclosed Washington D.C.
Washington and Idaho
Mason-Dixon line, which represents the cultural border between the Southern and Northern United States.
The object of the 54-40 fight was over the northern border of the United States with Canada. The 54-40 number was the latitude that the US believed should be the border.
the border states didnt secede to the union or the confederacy the five border states arewest virginiamarylanddelewarekentuckymissouri
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The states that make Florida's northern border are southeastern Alabama and southern/southeastern Georgia.
Because if they'd voted the other way, the balance would have tilted seriously against the Union, and if Maryland had gone Confederate, Washington DC would have been totally surrounded by enemy states.
The states that lie along the northern border of the southwest region of the United States are Colorado, Utah, and Nevada.
On its northern border.
border states are states that were left in the union but stil had slavery.
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It tilted the balance crucially in favour of the North - especially as one of the buffer-states was Maryland, which enclosed Washington D.C.
Rio Grande forms the Southern border of the United states.
Kansas and Colorado touch Oklahoma's northern border.
No two US states share a northern border with Maine.
The country that forms most of the northern border of the United States is Canada. The country directly to the south is Mexico.