Many in the South felt betrayed, believing that Lincoln promised to …show more content…
Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina joined the Confederacy. But border states of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, Unionism triumphed. President Lincoln knew that the border states had indispensable resources, population, and wealth that controlled major rivers and railroads. While the Confederates had many more states than the Union did, the Union states had a huge population people and resources which evened the two out. In Virginia, the dissatisfaction was so rife that Virginia was split into two different states. West Virginia was loyal to the Union and Virginia was loyal to the Confederacy. Still, four new states strengthened the Confederacy’s drive for national independence.
Slaveholders had a more economic drive in preserving slavery,