It would later become their capital
The deeply-divided slave-owning state of Maryland voted that way because all the Southern sympathisers in the higher echelons of the state legislature had been (illegally) jailed by Lincoln.
One problem the people of Maryland suffered was religious prejudice. Many of the people that immigrated to Maryland were Catholic. Most people in the colonies were not, so there was a certain amount of persecution.
Because it was a slave state that surrounded the capital Washington. Losing Maryland would probably mean losing the capital as well. Or at the very least isolating the capital.
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. Maryland tried to join the Confederacy, but Lincoln had the governor and the legislators arrested and put in prison without trial, and suspended the writ of habeus corpus to get away with it, to keep them from seceding. The Maryland leaders were replaced with pro-Union men. After seeing what happened to Maryland, Delaware did not try. Maryland sent soldiers and units to both sides, though, and so did Kentucky and Missouri.
because it would divide Confederacy into two
It was important because Maryland was a slave state with pro confederate leaders.
Lincoln believed that the Border States were an important key to winning the Civil War. They were the states that had strong loyalties to either cause. Maryland was important because of its strategic location to DC. Delaware bordered Maryland and shared the peninsula with it and Virginia. Part of the Union strategy was also to blockade supplies to the South.
They were border states for the Union and Confederate. Maryland was especially important because it contained the U.S. capital (Washington D.C.)
The deeply-divided slave-owning state of Maryland voted that way because all the Southern sympathisers in the higher echelons of the state legislature had been (illegally) jailed by Lincoln.
Maryland was one of the so-called "border states", it had slavery but did not secede from the Union. Maryland-like many states- provided soldiers to both sides in the conflict.
no because if Delaware was the first state in the union then Delaware obviously had a royal colony and Maryland was the 5th state to enter the union so there had to be a state before it with a royal colony so........................ NO! and if you don't think this answers true research it yourself.
Because it was a slave-state that had pro-Confederate leaders, and could easily have seceded. Also it was on the route between New York and Washington, and could have interrupted the movement of troops and supplies between the two centres.
There is no Battle of Eventual Union.
It separated Pennsylvania (free soil) from Maryland (slave). Maryland did not join the Confederacy, so it remained a Union state.
the confederate forts in western Tennessee were important in the union plan to defeat the south.
The border states were crucial to the outcome of the US Civil War. The border states in this answer were Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware. Here is a summary of why these states were so important: A. The above mentioned border States did not secede from the Union at the onset of the war when Fort Sumter was attacked; B. If 3 of the 4, namely Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland had joined the Confederacy, the so-called "white" population of the South would have increased by 45%, thus creating a larger pool of men to serve as soldiers; C. Also, the industrial base of the Confederacy would have increased been increased by 80%; and D. The succession of Maryland would most likely have caused the Union to abandon Washington DC as Virginia and Maryland would have the US capital surrounded.
It surrounded Washington DC.