Union (American Civil War) facts for kids

Map of the division of the states during the Civil War. Blue represents Union states, including those admitted during the war; light blue represents Union states which permitted slavery (border states). Red shows Confederate states. Unshaded areas were not states before or during the Civil War.

During the American Civil War, the Union meant the federal government of the United States, which was supported by the twenty free states and five border states. It was opposed by 11 Southern slave states. The Union states included the Western states of California, Oregon, and (after 1864) Nevada. They also included states then called the "Old Northwest" and now usually thought to be part of the Midwest. However, the Union has been also often called "the North", both then and now. The Union states were mostly richer and more industrialized.

The Union states were:

Related pages

• Union Army

Images for kids

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  Charleston Mercury Secession Broadside, 1860—"The Union" had been a way to refer to the American Republic.

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  The Union had large advantages in men and resources at the start of the war, and the ratio grew steadily in favor of the Union. In the chart, "cauc men" means white men (Caucasian).

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  Anti-Lincoln Copperhead pamphlet from 1864

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  Lincoln met with his Cabinet for the first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation draft on July 22, 1862.

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  Union soldiers on the Mason's Island (Theodore Roosevelt Island), 1861

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  Union soldiers before Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg, May 1863

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  Soldiers of the Fourth United States Colored Infantry at Fort Lincoln, 1865

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  Field hospital after the Battle of Savage's Station (1862)

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  1862 Greenbacks

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In Spanish: Unión (guerra de Secesión) para niños