West Virginia was formed from fifty counties in Virginia that refused to secede from the United States. Virginia seceded, but West Virginia became a new state and joined the Union.
The states that DID NOT secede from the Union was Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. These four states did not secede from the Union because They were Border states, meaning they were between the Union and the Confederacy.
During the American Civil War, several western counties in Virginia refused to secede from the Union and subsequently formed the state of West Virginia in 1863. These counties, primarily located in the northwestern part of Virginia, sought to break away due to differences in economic interests and political views. West Virginia became the 35th state, reflecting the desires of its residents to remain loyal to the Union.
Four slave-states of the Upper South - Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware.
Virginia now became west Virginia and Virginia
because they felt like it
West Virginia
What countries and what Union? Need more information to answer.
The battle of Shiloh was important because Tennessee secede from the union
Because of slavery causes and dissagreements between the union and the confederates
Florida was one of the first states to secede from the Union.
California did not secede; it remained loyal to the union.