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Kansas. West Virginia.
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which state was not officially a state at the begining of the war NEW RESPONDENT West Virginia
At the beginning of WWII, America was neutral. The US did not enter the war until 1941, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Kentucky was allowed to stay neutral at the beginning - Lincoln was worried about driving it into the arms of the Confederacy.
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A bunch of Southern states declared that they were not part of the USA anymore. Then one of them attacked a US Army base at Fort Sumter (which quickly surrendered), officially beginning the war.
Officially no.
The US Military was officially segregated (for African Americans) from the beginning of the United States until about 1947.
At the beginning of the US Civil War, the "southern" border States were Kentucky and Missouri. In this answer, Maryland is excluded in that although it was a pro=southern slave State, it cannot be considered a border State.
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