Asked by Makayla

From your study of the Civil War, all of the following states seceded from the Union after the election of Lincoln except:

Mississippi
South Carolina
Louisiana
Maryland

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Maryland.

Unlike South Carolina (Dec. 20, 1860), Mississippi (Jan. 9, 1861), and Louisiana (Jan. 26, 1861), Maryland — a border slave state — did not secede and remained in the Union (under strong federal control and suspension of habeas corpus in parts of the state).