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During the US Civil War, states that had not joined the Confederacy, but were slave states, were termed the "border states". They are as follows:

A. Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and Delaware; and

B. There always a Confederate hope that either the former three ones mentioned would eventually secede.

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they were Delaware,Kentucky,maryland,missouri,and West Virginia

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Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware.

And West Virginia-were admitted to the Union in June of 1863.

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