Union. (19-15)
the North
the union states
The Union
There 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.
The United States had control the greater number of states. The Confederacy was always outnumbered, because four slave states had stayed loyal to the Union.
The United States had more states than the confederacy.
There were 11 states in the Confederacy,they were; Virginia,North Carolina,South Carolina,Tennessee,Georgia,Florida,Alabama,Mississippi,Louisiana,Arkansas,Texas.
The Union
A few goals of the north/union to gain control of were the Mississipi river, blockade the Confederate's seaports, and seize Richmond, the Confederate's capital.
In 1860 and 1861, eleven states formed a separate nation called the Confederate States of America. This is a forerunner to the Civil War in which the Confederate States of America fought against the Union of States.
The ideas regarding reconstruction in the South was to, in the minds of many, a fair and harsh set of laws and regulations. What was not planned was the return of political control of Southern states by neo-Confederate politicians. As time moved on, white racists gained control of many former Confederate states. This did not bode well for former slaves.
The United States of America and the Confederate States of America.
The confederate states were officially formed on Feburaury 5, 1861.
Union
KSOJ
The Union had more states. That was the essence of the big debate - Northern dominance of Congress, and freedom to raise taxes on imports that the South needed more than the North.
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.
The U.S
united states
The Union had more states.
A Confederation is a government in which the individual states have greater power than the central government, thus the Confederate States wanted to be opposite of the US government where the central government was obtaining more power over the individual states.
No. It was a representative republic like the United States. In fact, the confederate constitution very much resembles the United States constitution, except that it doesn't allow for much federal control.
After the Union gained complete control of the Mississippi River with the capture of Vicksburg, the Confederate states of Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas were cut off from the rest of the Confederacy.
Now there are no confederate states but there are some people who still have confederate beliefs.
In 1874, the US States, formerly Confederate ones, were in control of Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina.