Because it allowed slavery to continue in the Border States - slave-states of the Upper South that had stayed loyal.
yes ,along with the three other border states of Delaware, Maryland, and Kentucky. although all four states allowed slavery, they stayed in the Union
Because it allowed slavery to continue in the four slave-states that had stayed loyal (Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware).
The Border states, or the Buffer states.
They were the slave-states that stayed loyal to the Union. Lincoln treated them tactfully, and allowed them to continue practising slavery during hostilities, for fear of driving them into the arms of the Confederacy.
Only one state was allowed to stay neutral, and that wasn't for long. It was Kentucky - one of the four Border states that were allowed to continue practising slavery for the duration of hostilities. But it was on condition that they stayed loyal.
The whole of the South, including the Upper-South states which stayed loyal in the war - Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware. District of Columbia also allowed slavery, though slave-trading had been abolished there as part of the Compromise of 1850.
united states
The North had abolished slavery, because it did not fit the industrial system. In the Civil War, four slave-states stayed loyal to the Union, and were counted as 'the North'.
Well for one reason, they still wanted to torture slaves. another reason, Some people didn't really Abraham Lincoln so John Wilkes Booth snuck on Abraham Lincoln and shot him in the head but it didn't kill Abraham Lincoln but the next morning his wife Mary Todd Lincoln tried to wake him up but she couldn't so cried and cried until she told the white house '' My Husband Is Dead''.
Short-term, nothing - slavery was allowed to continue in the slave-states that had remained loyal. Long-term, the loyalty of these states helped the Union to win the war - which is what brought slavery to an end throughout the USA.
California (New respondent) No, it was the four slave-states of the Upper South that had remained loyal. Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware.