The Union states were free except:
Maryland
Delaware
Missouri
and Kentucky
So the free Union states were Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, California and Oregon. Nevada entered the Union as a free state during the Civil War.
During the United States Civil War the free states that remained in the Union faced quite a bit of difficulty. The states were referred to as the Union were New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, California, Minnesota, Oregon, Kansas Nevada, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri.
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no the union are free ,confederate are agents slavery Not true. Md,De,Mo,Ky were Union states that had slavery. In the middle of the war,WVa became a Union state (June '63) and also allowed slavery. All Confederates had slavery.
They said the original Union was a collection of states that had joined it voluntarily, and were therefore equally free to quit.
During the Civil War, the United States was divided into the Union and the Confederacy. Twenty states belonged to the Union, and there were also four border states that did not secede from the United States, but also did not give up slavery. The Confederacy had eleven states.
The North was called the Union because it represented those states that remained in "union" together as the Unites States, and because it was fighting to preserve that union by keeping the rebellious Southern states from leaving it.
the union or the united states of America
That makes no sense.
That proclamation had little effect, other than symbolic, because the states that accepted the proclamation were the Union States, which were free states, anyhow. The Confederate States did not accept the jurisdiction of the Union government.
None of the Border States seceded even though they were slave states.
free the slaves.
The union of the states
The dispute over if the states would enter the Union as free states or slave states.
It upset the balance of slave & free states,
Twenty-five states made up the Union during the civil war. These include five slaves states that were referred to as border states. Nevada and West Virginian became states during the Civil War and joined with the Union states.
Union
they fought to preserve the union states to be free.
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They said the original United States had been formed voluntarily, and that the member-states were free to quit the Union if they wanted.