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.
15 slave states and 19 free states during the American Civil War
The slave states during the Civil War were Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia. Other slaves states were Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida.
Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and Kentucky were border states that remained with the union during the civil war.
There were actually multiple slave states that remained in the Union. These states, known as border states, were: Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri and West Virginia.
Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and Kentucky
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.
15 slave states and 19 free states during the American Civil War
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.
It was one of the four slave-states of the Upper South that stayed loyal - a big issue with Lincoln.
The slave states during the Civil War were Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia. Other slaves states were Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida.
Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and Kentucky were border states that remained with the union during the civil war.
too many Slave states being added to the Union
The five slave states that did not secede from the U.S. were called "border states." These states are West Virginia, Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware.
The Union in the American Civil War represented the free states (meaning slave-free states) plus five border slave states in the north of America. The Confederate States of America (the Confederacy) comprised the eleven southern slave states which had seceded from the United States of America.
There were actually multiple slave states that remained in the Union. These states, known as border states, were: Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri and West Virginia.
The North had abolished slavery, because it did not fit the industrial system. In the Civil War, four slave-states stayed loyal to the Union, and were counted as 'the North'.