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The Emancipation Proclamation freed all enslaved people in the

Confederacy, but not the Border states. Which states make up the Border
states?

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Answer:

Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virg inia

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Answer:

The border slave states of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri remained with the Union, although they all contributed volunteers to the Confederacy. Fifty counties of western Virginia were loyal to the Union government, and in 1863 this area was constituted the separate state of West Virginia

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