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The US states of Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware were known as border states. They did not join the Confederacy and were still slave states.

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What was a border state at the time of the civil war?

During the US Civil War, states that had not joined the Confederacy, but were slave states, were termed the "border states". They are as follows:A. Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and Delaware; andB. There always a Confederate hope that either the former three ones mentioned would eventually secede.


Which four states stated in the union even though slavery was legal in thos states?

During the American Civil War, the four Union States that allowed slavery were: Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri and Maryland. By the end of the Civil War, only Delaware and Kentucky continued allowing slavery, until it was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution.


What slave states stayed in the Union during the Civil War?

Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware. Slaves in these states were not freed till after the civil war; not even by the Emancipation Proclamation. Plus, of course, District of Columbia, until slavery was abolished there in '62.


What Four States Failed to secede during the Civil War but kept slavery?

Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky and Missouri. However, Missouri and Kentucky Confederates issued secession documents and sent representatives to the Confederate Congress. Maryland was prevented from seceding by the Union government.


What states had slaves but didn't leave the union during the civil war?

Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware. Later there was the new state of West Virginia, which quit Virginia (and the Confederacy) to join the Union, although there was very little slavery in that mountain region. Also, the District of Columbia was still practising slavery in the first months of the war (on a very small scale), although slave-trading had been abolished there, as part of the Compromise of 1850.

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What were the border states during the civil what?

Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri


What were the border states for north and south during the civil war?

Delaware Kentucky Maryland Missouri and west Virginia


Which states are the border states?

The border states during the Civil War were Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri.


What was a border state at the time of the civil war?

During the US Civil War, states that had not joined the Confederacy, but were slave states, were termed the "border states". They are as follows:A. Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and Delaware; andB. There always a Confederate hope that either the former three ones mentioned would eventually secede.


Which four states stated in the union even though slavery was legal in thos states?

During the American Civil War, the four Union States that allowed slavery were: Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri and Maryland. By the end of the Civil War, only Delaware and Kentucky continued allowing slavery, until it was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution.


What were the confederacy border states?

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.


What slave states stayed in the Union during the Civil War?

Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware. Slaves in these states were not freed till after the civil war; not even by the Emancipation Proclamation. Plus, of course, District of Columbia, until slavery was abolished there in '62.


What Four States Failed to secede during the Civil War but kept slavery?

Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky and Missouri. However, Missouri and Kentucky Confederates issued secession documents and sent representatives to the Confederate Congress. Maryland was prevented from seceding by the Union government.


Which four border states could have gone either North or South?

Missouri Kentucky Maryland Delaware All of them were "slave states" that stayed in the Union for one reason or another.


What states had slaves but didn't leave the union during the civil war?

Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware. Later there was the new state of West Virginia, which quit Virginia (and the Confederacy) to join the Union, although there was very little slavery in that mountain region. Also, the District of Columbia was still practising slavery in the first months of the war (on a very small scale), although slave-trading had been abolished there, as part of the Compromise of 1850.


What four slave states remained with the union during the civil war?

Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and Kentucky were border states that remained with the union during the civil war.


States that did not secede the US during the civil war?

Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware. It was not just their status prior to the war that bothered Lincoln. They were in danger of seceding if they saw the South winning battles, and a Confederate government was actually installed in Kentucky by Braxton Bragg, though it collapsed when he took his army back to Tennessee.