Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware. District of Columbia was also a slave-state (though not allowed to trade slaves) until the summer of 1861.
Kansas was admitted into the Union on January 29, 1861 becoming the 34th state to join the Union.
It wasn't that way. A state was either Confederate or Union. When the war started in 1861 it was the newest state and had formally rejected slavery by popular vote and it fought with the Union. It was a frontier state at the time so no Confederate engagements took places there.
Maryland. It couldn't secede; the Federal capitol and Federal army was too close.
The state of Texas declared its secession from the United States on February 1, 1861, and joined the Confederate States of America on March 2, 1861
A slave state, which seceded from the Union on April 17, 1861. The western portion of Virginia did not wish to secede from the Union in 1861 and broke away to form its own state on June 20, 1863. West Virgina was part of the Union on June 20, 1863, and thus a free state, and the 35th state.
Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware. District of Columbia was also a slave-state (though not allowed to trade slaves) until the summer of 1861.
Kansas was admitted into the Union on January 29, 1861 becoming the 34th state to join the Union.
Kansas joined the Union in January of 1861. It fought as a Union state in the US Civil War. There was a good deal of guerrilla warfare there as many people were sympathetic to the South.
It wasn't that way. A state was either Confederate or Union. When the war started in 1861 it was the newest state and had formally rejected slavery by popular vote and it fought with the Union. It was a frontier state at the time so no Confederate engagements took places there.
Illinois was admitted to the Union on December 3, 1818 becoming the 21st state to join the union. The U.S. Civil War was fought from 1861 to 1865.
Under the terms of the Act, two territories were to be formed, Kansas and Nebraska. One would presumably become a slave state and the other a free state. Popular sovereignty would prevail and it was assumed that slave-owning Southerners would occupy Kansas and make it a slave state, while free state advocates would settle Nebraska. Things worked out as anticipated in Nebraska, but not in Kansas. Kansas was a Free State.
Kansas was admitted into the Union on January 29, 1861 becoming the 34th state to join the Union.
On January 29, 1861, Kansas became a state.
As part of the Union, Illinois fought 1861-1865
The Union (US) fought the Confederates. War began April 12, 1861 and ended April 9, 1865.
January 29, 1861