USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In the context of the American Civil War (1861–65), the border states were slave states that did not secede from the Union . They were Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, and after 1863, the new state of West Virginia.

Detailed explanation-2: -Despite their acceptance of slavery, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri did not join the Confederacy. Although divided in their loyalties, a combination of political maneuvering and Union military pressure kept these states from seceding.

Detailed explanation-3: -Four slave states–Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, and Kentucky–did not secede from the Union. On April 29th, Maryland held a secession convention and delegates voted secession down 53 to 13.

Detailed explanation-4: -In response to the Unionists’ growing political power, the state’s Southern sympathizers formed a rival Confederate government. On November 18, 200 delegates passed an Ordinance of Secession and established Confederate Kentucky; the following December it was admitted to the Confederacy as a 13th state.

Detailed explanation-5: -Only two railroads ran from Kentucky southward. Had the state seceded, the North would have invaded more quickly than the South. Thus Kentuckians’ love of Union and their fears of losing their slaves, of invasion by large numbers of Federal troops, and of losing northern economic ties, kept the state from seceding.