In 1863, four slave states remained in the Union. These were Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware. The 13th Amendment to the Constitution made slavery illegal in all the states in 1865.
Delaware remained loyal to the Union. Maryland might have seceded had Lincoln not placed Federal troops around the state legislature, but the state remained in the Union. Kentucky did not secede but could not entirely be said to be loyal to the Union. It was officially neutral. About twice as many regiments from Kentucky joined the Confederacy as joined the Union, but it is likely that some Kentucky men joined with regiments from other states both north and south. Missouri was a slave state and never formally seceded. Although support for the South was strong, and a pro-Confederacy Army and legislature formed, the state remained in the Union. Estimates of the time say that Missouri was 90% for the Confederacy and 10% Union. The last one to name here was West Virginia, which was part of Virginia until several counties banded together to secede from Virginia to rejoin the Union as a new state in 1863. West Virginia never existed as a slave state, having been brought into the Union after the Emancipation Proclamation, and is therefore a tricky but incorrect answer to this question.
If the state was brought into the union it would upset the balance of free and slave states.
Union. It was one of the four slave-states of the Upper South that voted to stay loyal. There was not much slavery in Delaware, but it did supply troops to both sides.
West Virginia split from Virginia at the start of the Civil War due to slavery, and Virginia became a part of the Confederacy while West Virginia remained in the Union.
In 1863, four slave states remained in the Union. These were Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware. The 13th Amendment to the Constitution made slavery illegal in all the states in 1865.
In 1863, four slave states remained in the Union. These were Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware. The 13th Amendment to the Constitution made slavery illegal in all the states in 1865.
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.
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West Virginia broke apart from the slave state Virginia and joined the Union, but for the most part all slave states were Confederate.
The states that remained part of the United States and fought the Confederacy during the Civil War.
The states that remained part of the United States and fought the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Georgia was a slave state and part of the Confederate States of America.
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.
The Border States were a key part of the US Civil War. They were slave states that did not join the Confederacy, it was important for the Union to prevent that they did not secede and join the South.
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee seceded from the Union. Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware were slave states that remained in the Union.
The north and the south. The north was against slavery, and the south was for it.