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All those states were deeply divided, but there was not quite enough pro-Southern sentiment to swing the vote.

Even so, Lincoln had a hard job keeping them onside - a tribute to his political skill, greatly outclassing his opposite number Jefferson Davis.

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What is the name for the slave states that did not join the confederacy?

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The Confederate border states were Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. Although these states were geographically located on or near the border between the North and South, they did not secede from the Union to join the Confederacy during the American Civil War.


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