Border States

Border States:

These states were the only slave states left and they consisted of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware. It contained a whites population moe than half that of the entire Confederacy. Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri would almost double the manufacturing  capacity of the South and increasing nearly half its supply of hises and mules. T persuade the Border States to remain in the Union, Lincon not only relied on moral suasion but also used methods of dubious legality. In Maryland, Lincoln declared martial law and sent troops. Lincoln also deployed soldiers in Missouri, where they fought the Unionists in a local civil war. Lincoln was also forced to declare that he was not fighting to free the blacs because that would mae the Border States side with the South.

Lincoln's regime also arranged for "supervised" voting in the Border States.