They held the balance of power.
If all eight states of the Upper South had gone Confederate, the Union would have lost.
Four of them did.
Keeping the other four loyal was Lincoln's biggest headache in the first months of the war.
the border states didnt secede to the union or the confederacy the five border states arewest virginiamarylanddelewarekentuckymissouri
- they had many factories and resources needed by both sides during the war.
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The Border states, or the Buffer states.
border states are states that were left in the union but stil had slavery.
The Border States were a key part of the US Civil War. They were slave states that did not join the Confederacy, it was important for the Union to prevent that they did not secede and join the South.
Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland were the border states that remained in the Union.
Because if those four states had voted Confederate, i would have tilted the balance against the Union.
the border states didnt secede to the union or the confederacy the five border states arewest virginiamarylanddelewarekentuckymissouri
California and Oregon did not share a border with the 21 other Union states.
They were border states for the Union and Confederate. Maryland was especially important because it contained the U.S. capital (Washington D.C.)
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.
- they had many factories and resources needed by both sides during the war.
it was important to keep the border states in union
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.