Question

These were slave states which did not secede from the union prior to the us civil war.

Answer 1

Answer:In the context of the American Civil War (1861–65), the border states were slave states that did not declare a secession from the Union and did not join the Confederacy. To their north they bordered free states of the Union and to their south they bordered Confederate slave states

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