Delaware Maryland
Delaware Maryland
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Kentucky and Maryland were border states, and Missouri and Kansas were caught in divided loyalties at the start of the US Civil War. Kansas was admitted as a state in 1861 and became the site of violent infighting between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions.
Henry Clay, a member of Congress from Kentucky, found a solution. Missouri would join the nation as a slave state. Maine would join as a free state. In this way the balanced… (MORE)
Delaware Maryland
Delaware Maryland
Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia were all slave states that remained in the Union.
Tennessee was the last state in the Union to join the confederacy. Tennessee joined the confederacy of due to laws being passed regarding the institution of slavery.
California (New respondent) No, it was the four slave-states of the Upper South that had remained loyal. Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware.
California (New respondent) No, it was the four slave-states of the Upper South that had remained loyal. Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware.
California (New respondent) No, it was the four slave-states of the Upper South that had remained loyal. Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowed Missouri to join the Union as a slave-state. At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Lincoln allowed Missouri to continue practising slavery for the duration of hostilities, so as not to drive it into the arms of the Confederacy. The 13th Amendment (December 1865) outlawed slavery in every state of the Union.
Virginia
They did not want to have slavery in the western parts of Virginia, so these western counties broke off to form another state so they could let Virginia join the confederacy and they join the Union
The state of Missouri did join the confederacy in 1861.
the border state