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Why was Missouri and Kentucky have a hard time deciding which side to join during the civil war?

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Updated: 9/22/2023

Because their inhabitants were divided into two factions: the first one pro Union and the second one pro Confederacy, fighting in order to overwhelm the opponent.

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What was considered neutral territory for the north and south during the civil war?

Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri

What four slave states remained with the union during the civil war?

Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and Kentucky were border states that remained with the union during the civil war.

What were the border states for north and south during the civil war?

Delaware Kentucky Maryland Missouri and west Virginia

Was the only border state to join the Confederacy.?

No, Missouri and Kentucky were both border states that had divided loyalties during the American Civil War. While Kentucky remained officially neutral, Missouri had competing governments and factions supporting both the Union and the Confederacy.

What state were border states in the civil war?

Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and Missouri

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What were the border states during the civil what?

Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri

Name the 3 border states during the civil war?

Maryland Kentucky Missouri.

What was considered neutral territory for the north and south during the civil war?

Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri

Was the border states fighting during the civil war?

Yes, there were battles in Missouri at the beginning, and later in Kentucky.

What four slave states remained with the union during the civil war?

Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and Kentucky were border states that remained with the union during the civil war.

What were the border states for north and south during the civil war?

Delaware Kentucky Maryland Missouri and west Virginia

Population of slaves in south during civil war?

ANSWER In the Confederacy : 3,024,745; in the Border States (Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland) 312,473

What kind of states were Kentucky Missouri Maryland and Delaware known as during the US Civil War?

The US states of Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware were known as border states. They did not join the Confederacy and were still slave states.

Civil war border states?

tennessee,maryland,kentucky,missouri

Border states of civil war?

Kentucky, Missouri, Maaryland, Delaware.

What were the border states in the civil war?

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Border states in civil war?

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