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They were border states for the Union and Confederate. Maryland was especially important because it contained the U.S. capital (Washington D.C.)

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They were called Border States.

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Which of the following were border slave states that stayed with the Union?

Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware and Maryland were border states that remained in the union but still allowed slavery. The state legislatures of Kentucky, Delaware and Maryland voted to remain. Missouri voted to leave the union but union troops stormed the state capital and installed a pro union government to insure they remained with the union. Prior to the Emancipation Proclamation captured slaves were returned to their masters in Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware and Maryland and in fact there are records of the Union Army conducting slave auctions in the border states.


What four border states did not secede?

Delaware Kentucky Missouri Maryland


What was a state that allowed slavery but did not join the Confederacy in 1861?

Delaware Maryland


Which slave states did not leave the union?

Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. The elected state leaders of Maryland would have left the Union, but the Federal government put them all in prison before they had a chance, and kept them there, without charges, and suspended the Constitutional Right of Habeus Corpus, so they could not petition for their release. Delaware, which is landlocked by Maryland, seeing this, did not attempt it. Missouri likewise would have left the Union, but prompt action by a US Army officer on the scene, Nathaniel Lyon, assisted by pro-Union militia groups of German immigrants, prevented it. Kentucky at first declared "neutrality". Military commanders on both sides outside Kentucky coveted strategic locations along the Ohio River in northern Kentucky, and the Confederates acted first, "invading" Kentucky to seize the high ground at Columbus. This forced Kentucky into the Union camp. Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri sent men to the armies of both sides, though. Additionally, West Virginia "seceded" from the state of Virginia while the war was going on, and was set up as a "new" state in 1863. Apparently it was acceptable for part of a state to secede from its old relationship, but not for entire states to secede from the Union. East Tennessee wanted to do likewise, but was never able to.


Why were Delaware Maryland Kentucky and Missouri called the 4 Border States?

The number of slaves in these states was insignificant and posed no threat to the Union.

Related questions

What were the border states?

Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, missouri


What border states did Lincoln try to keep in the unions?

Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland


What union free states bordered states in which slavery was legal?

Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware…


What state were border states in the civil war?

Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and Missouri


What were the four border states?

Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware.


What were the border states in the US?

Missouri, Kentucky,Maryland, Delaware


What were the border states in 1860?

Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware.


Which of the following were border slave states that stayed with the Union?

Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware and Maryland were border states that remained in the union but still allowed slavery. The state legislatures of Kentucky, Delaware and Maryland voted to remain. Missouri voted to leave the union but union troops stormed the state capital and installed a pro union government to insure they remained with the union. Prior to the Emancipation Proclamation captured slaves were returned to their masters in Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware and Maryland and in fact there are records of the Union Army conducting slave auctions in the border states.


Which southern states stayed in union?

Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware.


What were the border states in the civil war?

Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware.


Border states in civil war?

Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware.


What four border states did not secede?

Delaware Kentucky Missouri Maryland