Which Statement Accurately Describes Why That State Refused to Join

question 109

Multiple Choice

Which statement accurately describes why that state refused to join the Confederacy?

• A) Delaware was mainly a nonslaveholding state that had no desire to be part of a slave Confederacy.
• B) Missouri's citizens were united in their loyalty to the Union and in their belief that an independent slave confederacy could not survive.
• C) Virginia's nonslaveholding eastern part of the state refused to secede with the western part ¾ which named itself West Virginia when it joined the Confederacy.
• D) Maryland's popular politician, Hannibal Hamlin, had just been elected vice president.
• E) Kentucky had a Unionist legislature whose resolve was strengthened by the presence of Grant's troops across the river in Illinois.

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