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The border between Maryland and Virginia is the Potomac River. Washington D.C. is on the north bank of the Potomac, on land ceded to the federal government by the Maryland. Thus, if Maryland had seceeded and joined the Confederacy, the Capital of the United States would have been in the middle of the Confederate States. Washington DC would have had to be evacuated and a new capitol, perhaps New York or Philadelphia might have been chosen.
Also, Maryland had a large population, the port of Baltimore and farm products that would have helped the South.
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∙ 14y agoMaryland was a slave-state whose leaders had Confederate sympathies. By jailing these individuals without trial, Lincoln managed to keep Maryland within the Union, and saved Washington D.C. from being directly surrounded by enemy country.
The state remained divided, and the group that assassinated Lincoln made their plans in a Maryland boarding-house, whose owner, Mary Surratt, was hanged for her involvement in the crime.
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∙ 12y agoIf it went Confederate, then the Union capital Washington DC would have been totally surrounded by enemy states.
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Why were Delaware Kentucky Maryland and Missouri so important during the civil war?
They were border states for the Union and Confederate. Maryland was especially important because it contained the U.S. capital (Washington D.C.)
Why was Maryland loyalty to the union so important?
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.
Why was Maryland considered the most important border state?
Because it largely surrounded Washington DC. Virginia had already seceded. If Maryland did the same. the Capital would have been isolated inside Confederate territory. Maryland was a deeply divided state. There had been riots in Baltimore. Later, it would be shown that Lincoln's assassination had been plotted in a Maryland boarding-house. That is why Lincoln took drastic steps, arresting the pro-Southern leaders of the Maryland government, suspending Habeas Corpus as he did so. But the main task was accomplished. Maryland stayed in the Union.
Why is little round top so important to Joshua Chamberlain?
little round top was so important because it was the extream left flank of thr union line and if the union was flanked they would of beem wiped out and would of lost Gettysburg
Why was the battle of fort mchenry so important?
Because its conquest gave to Union the control of the Tennessee River.
Why was Maryland's loyalty so important to union?
It was important because Maryland was a slave state with pro confederate leaders.
Why was Maryland so important to the union cause?
It would later become their capital
Why were Delaware Kentucky Maryland and Missouri so important during the civil war?
They were border states for the Union and Confederate. Maryland was especially important because it contained the U.S. capital (Washington D.C.)
Why is the border state Delaware so important to the union?
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.
Why did Maryland decide that being a part of the union was so important?
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.
Why did the north to remain a union?
Slavery was not much of a problem in the north so most northerners were against it uniting then into a union
Where did Maryland stand in the war?
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.
Why was Maryland loyalty to the union so important?
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.
Maryland was the first royal colony?
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.
Why was the battle of eventual union so important?
There is no Battle of Eventual Union.
Why was the mason-dixon line meant to separate the north from the south?
It separated Pennsylvania (free soil) from Maryland (slave). Maryland did not join the Confederacy, so it remained a Union state.
Why was it so important to the union to capture forts in western Tennessee?
the confederate forts in western Tennessee were important in the union plan to defeat the south.
