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During the Civil War, there were four slave states that remained in the Union: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. These states did not secede from the Union to join the Confederacy, despite allowing slavery within their borders. Their decision to stay in the Union was influenced by a variety of factors, including economic interests, political alignments, and strategic considerations.
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JordanThe five Border States, though officially slave states, remained part of the Union. Each state handled the division in different ways. Delaware State house rejected secession overwhelmingly. While some held sympathy for the Confederacy, they were far away and really didn't identify with the southern states. While there was support for secession in Maryland, particularly Baltimore and some other areas, secession was rejected. Maryland provided troops for both the Union and the Confederacy. While Kentucky did not vote to secede, they passed a bill of neutrality, and asked both sides to stay out. When Confederate troops led by General Polk violated that neutrality, Kentucky decided to support General Ulysses S. Grant and ordered the confederates expelled. Missouri voted not to secede, but issued a formal statement of opposition to the Union's coercion of the southern states. West Virginia, then part of the state of Virginia considered secession treason and succeeded in splitting from the state when it chose to secede.
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How many slave states remained in the Union and fought against the Confederacy in the Civil War?
Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri were four slave states that did not secede from the Union. West Virginia, another slave state, seceded from Virginia and joined the Union during the Civil War. it was 4 that didn't secede from the union.
The biggest reason for compromises on the slave issue during the civil war?
too many Slave states being added to the Union
Did slave life worsen during the civil war?
During the Civil War, slaves would defy their owners in the Southern States. The slave owners would punish them for their defiance as well as their attempts to escape to the North.
What are differences between the north and south during the civil war?
North was against making slaves states in the west South wanted to make slave states in the west
What are the slave states that didnt secede called?
there isn't really a name for them, they are like any state but they have slavery. you could call them southern slave states or slave states, or southern states...... there is no definition for slave states that didnt secede proir to the civil war
