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What was one of the slave states that stayed in the Union?
Virginia was a Confederate state. The Union slave states were Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and Kentucky. In June 1863 West Virginia became the fifth Union slave state.
Why was Missouri and Kentucky important during the civil war?
These were the two biggest border-states - that is, slave-states of the Upper South, that had stayed loyal to the Union. With these states, Lincoln had to be especially diplomatic, to persuade them not to go Confederate.
What northern states were slave states in 1860?
Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware. They might not have welcomed the label of 'Northern'. But when the test came, they (narrowly) voted against the Confederates, and stayed loyal to the Union.
Which union states bordered states that succeeded?
Luckily for Lincoln, none of the boarder state seceded. All succeeded in staying in the union.
Is Maryland union or confederacy?
union. It was one of the four slave states in the Union
What slave state was bordered on three sides by states in the union?
That could be Kentucky or Missouri, which both had three borders with free-soil states. But they had also stayed in the Union, as 'buffer states' that had voted against joining he Confederacy.
What was one of the slave states that stayed in the Union?
Virginia was a Confederate state. The Union slave states were Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and Kentucky. In June 1863 West Virginia became the fifth Union slave state.
What states were slave state but stayed in the union?
Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware
Which confederate states bordered at least one union state?
The confederate states that bordered the union states varied by time, as some states changed sides or became neutral. Virginia was the only one that stayed the same, bordering Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland.
What slave states stayed in the Union when the civil war began?
Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and Kentucky
Why did some of the slave states remain in the union?
Most slave states left the union. The "border" states that practiced slavery, but stayed in the union, probably realized it would be too difficult to fight off the North.
What are the 5 Union states that stayed in the union?
Do you mean the five slave-states that stayed in the Union? There were origially four - Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware. A fifth was the newly-created state of West Virginia, which broke away from the Confederate state of Virginia in 1863.
Were Missouri and Kentucky free slave states in 1863?
The Proclamation applied only in ten states that were still in rebellion in 1863, thus it did not cover the nearly 500,000 slaves in the slave-holding border states (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland or Delaware) which were Union states - those slaves were freed by separate state and federal actions.
What is a slave state that stayed in the union called?
confederate state
Which had control of the greater number of the states the confederate states or the US?
Union. (19-15)the Norththe union statesThe UnionThere were more loyal states than Confederate states. Eleven states joined the confederacy with 23 loyal states. United States territories also stayed loyal. There were four slave states (Maryland, Kentucky, Delaware and Missouri) which stayed loyal and West Virginia seceded from Virginia to stay in the Union.
What is the word for slave states that stayed in the union when the civil war began?
The five slave states that did not secede from the U.S. were called "border states." These states are West Virginia, Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware.
What were the slave states that remained in the Union called?
There were five slave states that remained in the Union. Initially there were four -- Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. West Virgina separated from Virginia when it (Virginia) seceded from the Union. West Virginia was admitted to the Union in 1863 as a slave state. West Virgina remained in the Union making it the fifth slave state not to secede. These five slave states were called border states.
