California stayed with the Union side; though there were some Californians who wanted to join the Confederacy instead. There were also significant numbers of people who wanted California to become an independent country.
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During the Civil War, there were four slave states that remained in the Union: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. These states did not secede from the Union to join the Confederacy, despite allowing slavery within their borders. Their decision to stay in the Union was influenced by a variety of factors, including economic interests, political alignments, and strategic considerations.
When Virginia seceded from the Union during the Civil War on 17 Aprol 1861, several counties in the northwestern part of the state decided to secede from the state and remain part of the United States. Lincoln declared West Virginia a state in violation of the US Constitution.
They did not all go out on the same day. The first was South Carolina, on December 20, 1860. By February, 1861, six more states from the deep south had also seceded. The other four of the upper south did not go out until after the firing on Fort Sumter. The day after Sumter surrendered Lincoln called on those states of the upper south to help fight the states of the lower south, so they had to chose whether to stay in the union and fight their neighbors, or go out and join with them. The last was North Carolina, on May 18, after Virginia and Tennessee had also done so, leaving them "surrounded" by states of the Confederacy.
The South seceded from the Union. In their view, this made Fort Sumter part of their territory, being held by Union forces. They demanded that the Union soldiers surrender the fort. Lincoln had to either order the men holding the fort off... or he had to send a re-supply ship to provide the men at the Fort with the means to stay. He ordered the Fort to be re-supplied. This was taking to position that the Union was still the owner of the territory. South Carolina took this to be a provocation because it denied their rights to their own territory. If they were no longer part of the Union, then the Union could not have forces on their land. They began shelling to make this point.
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Those were known as the Border States.
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Confederate. It was not one of the first states to secede, and many prominent Virginians like Robert E. Lee, hoped that it would stay in the Union.
States joined the Union on a voluntary basis.
Virginia. Before it seceded, Lee was hoping it would stay in the Union, and he could have accepted supreme command of the Union armies. But when it did secede, he reluctantly joined the Confederates. He had concluded that he was a Virginian first and an American second.
The South wanted to secede from the union, but the North wanted to stay as one country. The North wanted to abolish slavery but the South wanted to keep slavery.
Nevada was officially 'called' a territory in 1861.Nevada entered the Union as a state in Oct. 31, 1864. It was the 36th state to enter the Union.
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North Carolina did not rush to secede because they were going to stay neutral. They finally seceded when Abraham Lincoln called for troops from NC to join the army to recapture Sumter.
Lincoln's initial stance when the South began to secede was to not fire on Fort Sumter. He was trying to stay out of it and allow the upper south to convince the lower south to not secede.
During the Civil War, there were four slave states that remained in the Union: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. These states did not secede from the Union to join the Confederacy, despite allowing slavery within their borders. Their decision to stay in the Union was influenced by a variety of factors, including economic interests, political alignments, and strategic considerations.