No one really stayed neutral. Many border states wanted to stay out of it because they were caught in the middle, but it wasn't a case of refusing to participate, because as border states, the war was being fought on their land.
Even Kentucky, who issued a Declaration of Neutrality, had to choose sides when the confederacy invaded their state. Maryland also wanted to stay Neutral, but was unable to. Virginia got ripped apart (thus West Virginia) by the same conflict.
4 border states chose not to secede: Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. That doesn't mean they were neutral, but they wanted to solve the Union's problems another way.
During the American Civil War there were five states which stayed neutral and were given the name "border" states. They were called border states because they each bordered a free state and were aligned with the union. The five border states were Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia.
These were the two biggest border-states - that is, slave-states of the Upper South, that had stayed loyal to the Union. With these states, Lincoln had to be especially diplomatic, to persuade them not to go Confederate.
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yes ,along with the three other border states of Delaware, Maryland, and Kentucky. although all four states allowed slavery, they stayed in the Union
The border states did not like the slavery and they got very upset and from my side of an opinion I would think theyn would of left the union but then they stayed in the union and they helped stop slavery. The swtates allowed slavery yet they have remained in the union.
During the American Civil War there were five states which stayed neutral and were given the name "border" states. They were called border states because they each bordered a free state and were aligned with the union. The five border states were Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia.
Only one state was allowed to stay neutral, and that wasn't for long. It was Kentucky - one of the four Border states that were allowed to continue practising slavery for the duration of hostilities. But it was on condition that they stayed loyal.
Border States
The border states during the Civil War were Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri.
These were the two biggest border-states - that is, slave-states of the Upper South, that had stayed loyal to the Union. With these states, Lincoln had to be especially diplomatic, to persuade them not to go Confederate.
The US remained neutral until April 1917
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They were the slave-states that stayed loyal to the Union. Lincoln treated them tactfully, and allowed them to continue practising slavery during hostilities, for fear of driving them into the arms of the Confederacy.
Missouri Kentucky Maryland Delaware All of them were "slave states" that stayed in the Union for one reason or another.
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Because it allowed slavery to continue in the Border States - slave-states of the Upper South that had stayed loyal.