West Virginia broke apart from the slave state Virginia and joined the Union, but for the most part all slave states were Confederate.
The states that remained loyal during the Civil War were called the Union states, because they believed that we needed to preserve the union. The others were the Confederate states.
The Union (Northern states)
Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, and Kentucky.
The Emancipation Proclamation only applied to the Confederate states, but not all of the salve states had joined the confederacy. There were several slave states still in the Union, and they continued as slave states after the proclamation.
He refused to take an oath to the Confederate States of Ameriica and remained loyal to the Union.
The Buffer States - or, somewhat more controversially, the Border States (implying that there was an official frontier.)
The slave states that remained loyal to the Union were Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware.
All the free states, plus four slave-states that did not vote Confederate and chose to stay loyal.
Union. (19-15)the Norththe union statesThe UnionThere were more loyal states than Confederate states. Eleven states joined the confederacy with 23 loyal states. United States territories also stayed loyal. There were four slave states (Maryland, Kentucky, Delaware and Missouri) which stayed loyal and West Virginia seceded from Virginia to stay in the Union.
No. The South was the breakaway Confederacy. The North were the states that had remained loyal to the USA - the Union. (They included four slave-states)
The ones in the four slave-states of the Upper South that had remained loyal to the Union.
Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and Kentucky. Lincoln was worried that forcing them to release their slaves at this point might cause them to leave the Union and join the Confederacy.
At the outbreak of the US Civil War in 1861, the United States consisted of 19 free States and 15 slave States. Eleven slave States withdrew from the Union and made up the Confederate States of America. The Union had the greater number of States and among these States, several of them, plus Washington DC, were loyal to the Union but had slaves until the War's end in 1865.
Union. It was one of the four slave-states of the Upper South that voted to stay loyal. There was not much slavery in Delaware, but it did supply troops to both sides.
The Union States.
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 Border States. These were the slave-states that had voted to stay loyal. Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware.