The Northern half of the state supported remaining with the Union. Washington DC's influence was stronger in Maryland because DC existed on Maryland land.
they didnt
Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Delaware, and Maryland.
California did not secede; it remained loyal to the union.
The Buffer States - Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware. Lincoln's chief priority at the outbreak of the war was to keep these four states in the Union.
Which event caused the Southern States to secede from the Union
The Northern half of the state supported remaining with the Union. Washington DC's influence was stronger in Maryland because DC existed on Maryland land.
Borders do not secede but states do. Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri were border states that did not secede in 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.
The people of Maryland had a long tradition of slave-holding and ties to the south. They wanted to secede from the Union, but President Lincoln would not allow it. Maryland surrounded the capital of the US on three sides and if they seceded, the capital would have to secede also.
By 1865, there wasn't much point in any state seceding, as the Confederates had so obviously lost. It was in 1861 that the newly-inaugurated Lincoln jailed Maryland's pro-Southern leaders, because they were in danger of driving the state into the arms of the Confederates.
Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, and Kentucky.
Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware.
they didnt
Delaware (perhaps the most overlooked border state), Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri were the border states that did not secede from the Union.
Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Delaware, and Maryland.
There were four slave states that did not secede from the union, Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware. Slaves in these states were not freed till after the civil war; not even by the Emancipation Proclamation.
Four slave-states of the Upper South - Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware.