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People, events, terms

Chapter 20 Girding For War: The North and the South

Brothers’ Blood and Border Blood pages 436-438

Border States

The slave states that remained in the Union – Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware

Ohio River

and West Virginia after this pro-union portion of Virginia split and formed a new state

Cumberland River

– were the “crucial Border States that did not secede and Lincoln knew he had to keep

Tennessee River

them in the Union because of their geographic location and vital resources he had to

keep out of the hands of the Confederacy.

Lincoln used dubious legal methods to secure the border states:

In Maryland, he declared martial law and sent in federal troops to keep the

Confederacy from taking the state and cutting off Washington, D.C. from the North.

In western Virginia and Missouri, he also sent in troops.

In order to keep the Border States and pro-Southern settlers in the Butternut Region

of Southern Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois in line, Lincoln had to make the war about

preserving the Union and NOT about ending slavery.

In the West, the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory of Oklahoma, sided with

the Confederacy while a few groups of Native Americans (some Cherokee and most

Plains tribes) sided with the Union.

Brother vs. Brother

The war was a brothers war – where members of families often fought on opposing

Billy Yank

sides.

Johnny Reb

Summary of notes written above (1-2 complete sentences):

Cause and effect relationships:

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