After Sumter,four slave-states left the Union and another four did not. The ones that didn't were Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware. District of Columbiaitself wasa slave-state, though slave-trading had been ended there.
There were five slave states that remained in the Union. Initially there were four -- Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. West Virgina separated from Virginia when it (Virginia) seceded from the Union. West Virginia was admitted to the Union in 1863 as a slave state. West Virgina remained in the Union making it the fifth slave state not to secede. These five slave states were called border states.
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.
Pennsylvania was a free state. The Quaker influence made Pennsylvania one of the first bastions of the anti-slavery movement.
it was designed to stop the unbalance of the union(the US). It alloweed there to be an equal # of slave state=s and free state so that the power remained equal in the nation and in congress.
The Federal Fort Sumter was located in the Charleston Harbor of the State of South Carolina.
After Sumter,four slave-states left the Union and another four did not. The ones that didn't were Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware. District of Columbiaitself wasa slave-state, though slave-trading had been ended there.
slave state
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The state voted to join the Confederacy.
Virginia seceded from the Union after the Fort Sumter attack because they believed the attack violated the Constitution. They felt slavery was protected by the Constitution and the state. As a slave holding state, they believed an attack on state sovereignty by a federal force was an assault on the freedom of property and political representation.
There were five slave states that remained in the Union. Initially there were four -- Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. West Virgina separated from Virginia when it (Virginia) seceded from the Union. West Virginia was admitted to the Union in 1863 as a slave state. West Virgina remained in the Union making it the fifth slave state not to secede. These five slave states were called border states.
There were actually multiple slave states that remained in the Union. These states, known as border states, were: Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri and West Virginia.
Four of them did - Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina
Kentucky, Senator Crittenden's home state, would have remained a slave state.
The slave states were known in the North as "rebel states," but are officially known collectively as the Confederate State of America.
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.