单词 | Border States |
释义 | Border States The slave states adjoining the free states of the North during the Civil War. After Virginia joined the Confederacy in 1861, its western counties formed the new state of West Virginia, which along with the other Border States of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri remained in the Union despite strong Southern sympathies. |
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