Lincoln and the Border States

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Lincoln and the Border States

• The Uncivil War

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Introduction

• Definition of Border States
• Why important
• How Lincoln handled each
• What revealed about Lincoln

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Sources
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The Border States

• Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware (?)

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Three reasons why the Border States were important

• Resources
• Population 2.5 million (250 K military age)
• 2.8 million horses
• 9,600 factories 70,000 industrial workers

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Three reasons why the Border States were important

• Geography
• District of Columbia
• Ohio, Missouri, Mississippi rivers

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Three reasons why the Border States were important

• Politics
• Lincoln a minority president
• Needed support of Democrats/ loyal slaveholders
• Conclusion Control of the Border State crucial
  to Union victory

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How Lincoln handled the Border States

• Factors combined to give each a different fate

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Maryland The immediate crisis
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Kentucky A fictitious neutrality
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Missouri Responsibility delegated
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Lincoln and the Border States What do we learn
about Lincoln?

• Decisive
• Flexible
• Nationalist