There were actually multiple slave states that remained in the Union. These states, known as border states, were: Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri and West Virginia.
15 slave states and 19 free states during the American Civil War
Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware. West Virginia was also formed during this time period and remained loyal to the Union. Slaves in these states were not freed till after the civil war; not even by the Emancipation Proclamation.
The slave states during the Civil War were Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia. Other slaves states were Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida.
Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and Missouri
There were actually multiple slave states that remained in the Union. These states, known as border states, were: Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri and West Virginia.
The border states during the Civil War were Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. They remained part of the United States but were also slave states.
Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri were called border states during the Civil War. This is because they were slave states that remained part of the Union.
Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri were four slave states that did not secede from the Union. West Virginia, another slave state, seceded from Virginia and joined the Union during the Civil War. it was 4 that didn't secede from the union.
15 slave states and 19 free states during the American Civil War
Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware. West Virginia was also formed during this time period and remained loyal to the Union. Slaves in these states were not freed till after the civil war; not even by the Emancipation Proclamation.
The slave states during the Civil War were Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia. Other slaves states were Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida.
Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and Missouri
too many Slave states being added to the Union
Gracious sakes, were you asleep for all of 5th grade? Kentucky was a slave state that didn't secede during the Civil War. Such states are called "border states" and include Missouri, Maryland, and even Delaware. West Virginia was taken from Virginia in 1863, but that region had little or no slavery.
The slave holding states at the time of the US Civil War were: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee and North Carolina. Northern states where slavery was still legal were: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. They were the Border States that remained in the Union.
The Union in the American Civil War represented the free states (meaning slave-free states) plus five border slave states in the north of America. The Confederate States of America (the Confederacy) comprised the eleven southern slave states which had seceded from the United States of America.