Maine, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
The northern states were called The United States of America, or The Union. The south was called the Confederate States Of America.
Prior to the US Civil War, Southern states were sometimes referred to as slave holding states. Technically and in reality, until the Civil War, all US states were called US states. This is not some way to marginalize the antebellum period of the US.
The Americasn were interested in expansion northward because they believed that the Britsh North American contient should belong to the US, following their belief of Manifest destiny. Also, after the American Civil war fought in the 1860's between the Northern and Sounthern states, the southern used Canadian territory to attack the Northern. So, at the end of the Civil War in 1865, the Northern accused the British colonies of aiding the Southern states. This made the relationship between the Us and Britsh North America uneasy, and so the British North American contient was afraid that the Us was going to expand Northward and take their terrritory in revenge.
In 1865, the US Civil War was still going on. Also, Reconstruction followed the war and it took some Southern states time to reunite with the US. Thus the US Congress did not have all the states represented.
The most important states that played a large role were Virginia, as many significant battles were fought there. This includes both battles of Bull Run, the Peninsula campaign, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville,, Cold Harbor, Seven Days Battle, and many others including the siege of Petersburg.The other key state in the war was Tennessee. The battles there helped determine the wars results in the West.Additionally, states such as New York and Pennsylvania were places of a good number of Northern recruits.
The states that remained loyal during the Civil War were called the Union states, because they believed that we needed to preserve the union. The others were the Confederate states.
The northern states in the US Civil War called themselves "The Union."
the northern states and southern states in the eastern us.
AS YOU CAN SEE, NOT MANY STATES JOINED THE SOUTHERN STATES. MANY JOINED THE NORTHERN STATES !
The were called the Union or the Federalists.
The British weren't in the us civil war. It was a battle between the northern states and southern states.
In the years preceding the US Civil War, the Northern US States had a high degree of industrialization. There were relatively few Northern States that depended on slave labor. This became an important factor in the outcome of the US Civil War. The North was able to produce weapons, grow crops, and increase its growth by its high level of industry.
The U.S was at war with itself, separated between the Northern states and the Southern states
the civil war
The Civil War was not between Canada and America. It was between the northern and southern US states.
No one did. The northern states tried to blockade the southern states during the US civil war . No one banned trade.
The US Civil War was fought between Union forces (Northern States) and Confederate forces (Southern States) from April 1861 to April 1865, ending in a Union victory and Confederate surrender.
During the US Civil War, the mutual combatants' armies were named the Union Army and the Confederate States Army.