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VIRGINIA
Kentucky and Maryland were border states, and Missouri and Kansas were caught in divided loyalties at the start of the US Civil War. Kansas was admitted as a state in 1861 and became the site of violent infighting between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions.
General Robert E. Lee joined the Confederate military primarily due to his loyalty to his home state of Virginia. When Virginia seceded from the Union in April 1861, Lee felt a strong obligation to defend his state. Despite his reservations about slavery and secession, he believed that his duty as a military leader was to support Virginia and the Confederacy in their fight for independence.
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Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia were all slave states that remained in the Union.
Tennessee was the last state in the Union to join the confederacy. Tennessee joined the confederacy of due to laws being passed regarding the institution of slavery.
California (New respondent) No, it was the four slave-states of the Upper South that had remained loyal. Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware.
California (New respondent) No, it was the four slave-states of the Upper South that had remained loyal. Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware.
California (New respondent) No, it was the four slave-states of the Upper South that had remained loyal. Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowed Missouri to join the Union as a slave-state. At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Lincoln allowed Missouri to continue practising slavery for the duration of hostilities, so as not to drive it into the arms of the Confederacy. The 13th Amendment (December 1865) outlawed slavery in every state of the Union.
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Virginia
They did not want to have slavery in the western parts of Virginia, so these western counties broke off to form another state so they could let Virginia join the confederacy and they join the Union
The state of Missouri did join the confederacy in 1861.
the border state