Lincoln did not want Maryland to join the Confederacy because its secession would have severed crucial transportation and communication lines between the North and the capital, Washington, D.C. Maryland's geographic location made it strategically important, as its loss could have isolated the Union. Additionally, Lincoln aimed to preserve the Union and believed that maintaining control over Maryland was essential to preventing further Southern expansion and bolstering the Union's military position.
There was a chance that it would join the Confederacy, because it was a deeply divided state, and its leaders were Southern sympathisers. Lincoln acted promptly (and illegally) to jail those leaders, and the danger of a Confederate state surrounding Washington was averted.
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. Maryland tried to join the Confederacy, but Lincoln had the governor and the legislators arrested and put in prison without trial, and suspended the writ of habeus corpus to get away with it, to keep them from seceding. The Maryland leaders were replaced with pro-Union men. After seeing what happened to Maryland, Delaware did not try. Maryland sent soldiers and units to both sides, though, and so did Kentucky and Missouri.
Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware.
Maryland largely surrounded Washington DC, and it was vitally important to Lincoln that it did not secede. On this occasion, he suspended habeas corpus in order to jail some of the state's pro-Southern leaders, and keep it loyal.
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Because Lincoln had jailed its pro-Confederate leaders.
Lincoln arrested state leaders who wanted to secede.
Skilful diplomacy by Lincoln in Kentucky and Missouri, along with some unlawful jailing of pro-Southern leaders in Maryland.
Delaware Maryland
Delaware Maryland
There was a chance that it would join the Confederacy, because it was a deeply divided state, and its leaders were Southern sympathisers. Lincoln acted promptly (and illegally) to jail those leaders, and the danger of a Confederate state surrounding Washington was averted.
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. Maryland tried to join the Confederacy, but Lincoln had the governor and the legislators arrested and put in prison without trial, and suspended the writ of habeus corpus to get away with it, to keep them from seceding. The Maryland leaders were replaced with pro-Union men. After seeing what happened to Maryland, Delaware did not try. Maryland sent soldiers and units to both sides, though, and so did Kentucky and Missouri.
Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware.
Maryland largely surrounded Washington DC, and it was vitally important to Lincoln that it did not secede. On this occasion, he suspended habeas corpus in order to jail some of the state's pro-Southern leaders, and keep it loyal.
Abraham Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus at the beginning of the Civil War. Since Maryland was a border state and close to Washington, DC, authorities would have able to arrest anyone who attempted to cause the state to secede from the Union. Lincoln sent Federal troops to Maryland. He made it clear that Maryland should not leave the Union. Although there were many people in Maryland who wanted to join the South, there was not enough to bring the state into the Confederacy.
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