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Why did slave holding states decide to not join the Confederacy?
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∙ 12y ago
Kentucky was a slave holding state that did not join the confederacy. Lincoln is quoted as having said something to the effect that if he could not win Kentucky he could not win the war. Also, once Lincoln issued the immacipation proclimation, only slaves within states that had joined the confederacy were free, meaning that Kentucky could still legally continue to own slaves.
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∙ 13y agoThe Confederacy was made up entirely of slave-holding states. It was their raison d'etre.
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∙ 12y agoBecause the majority of their inhabitants wanted to be loyal to the Union.
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∙ 12y agoThey were not in favor of succeeding
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What are the southern slave states called?
the Confederacy
What 2 states did the Confederacy want to join them?
The Northern slave-states of Kentucky and Missouri.
Is Maryland union or confederacy?
union. It was one of the four slave states in the Union
The leaders of the Confederacy believed that the Union was a?
The leaders of the Confederacy believed that the Union states were the enemy. This belief was largely influenced by the slave trade.
What was the river that separated the free states and the slave states during the civil war?
The Potomac divided the Confederacy from the Union, although Maryland was a slave-state, and so was DC at the beginning. The Ohio River divided the slave-states from free soil.
What is the full name of the confederacy?
The Slave Holding States of the Confederacy.
Why did slave-holding state decide not to join the Confederacy?
They were not in favor of succeeding
Is the confederacy a slave state or a free state?
The Confederacy was not a state. It was a group of states that declared themselves as a nation separate from the United States. The states that joined it were slave states.
What are the southern slave states called?
the Confederacy
What is the name for the slave states that did not join the confederacy?
border states
Was it Kentucky Maryland Missouri or Tennessee which the north was unable to keep in the union when war erupted?
Three states, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri were slave holding states but did not join the Confederacy. Each of these states have complex reasons for remaining in the Union and yet retained their slaves. Tennessee was a slave state and joined the Confederacy. The latter was late, joining the South in May of 1861.
How many slave states did not join the confederacy after 1816?
11
What 2 states did the Confederacy want to join them?
The Northern slave-states of Kentucky and Missouri.
What where the borderline states in the US Civil War?
In the terms of the 1860's the "border states" were slave holding states that did not join the Confederacy but were allowed to retain their slaves. Geographically, Kentucky and Missouri were a buffer of sorts between the South and the North. Maryland surrounded the city of Washington DC making it necessary to prevent it from joining the Confederacy. Delaware's location and very small slave population were not important.
Is the north the same as the south confederacy?
No. The South was the breakaway Confederacy. The North were the states that had remained loyal to the USA - the Union. (They included four slave-states)
Why did Lincoln only free the slaves in the states of the confederacy instead of all slaves?
Because he was anxious not to upset powerful slave-owners in the border-states and drive them into the arms of the Confederacy.
Is Maryland union or confederacy?
union. It was one of the four slave states in the Union
