There were 20 states considered Union states and 5 Border States, which were considered Union states because they never seceded from the Union. Altogether, there were technically 25 states included in the Union States of the U.S. Civil War.

Despite their acceptance of slavery, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri did not join the Confederacy. Although divided in their loyalties, a combination of political maneuvering and Union military pressure kept these states from seceding.

The Confederacy included the states of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. Jefferson Davis was their President. Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri were called Border States.

The Union was in control of more land and had a bigger army than the Confederates. The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States or the Confederacy, was a government set up in 1861 by seven slave states in US.

Abraham Lincoln (November 1860), the seven states of the Deep South (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas) seceded from the Union during the following months.

Maine

California has the largest population in the United States followed by Texas, Florida, New York and Pennsylvania. California has the largest population in the United States followed by Texas, Florida, New York and Pennsylvania.

Rhode Island (US) is 18 times as big as Washington DC It is the smallest U.S. state by area and the seventh least populous (1,059,361 as of 2019), but it is also the second most densely populated behind New Jersey.

The looming U.S. Civil War delayed the sale, but after the war, Secretary of State William Seward quickly took up a renewed Russian offer and on March 30, 1867, agreed to a proposal from Russian Minister in Washington, Edouard de Stoeckl, to purchase Alaska for $7.2 million.

What is Alaska known for? Nature and landscapes! Of the 20 highest peaks in the U.S., 17 are in Alaska, including the highest peak in North America (20,320 feet above sea level), Denali. Alaska contains more than 100 volcanoes and volcanic fields which have been active within the last two million years.

Interesting Alaska Facts

• Alaska is big. Our 586,412 square miles are bigger than Texas, California, and Montana combined.
• We’ve got lots of mountains.
• We have a lot of beach front property.
• Ice is nice.
• We have the only temperate rainforest in the United States.
• Not many people live here.
• We have our own holidays.
• I don’t know, Juneau?

Alaska has 2 times as much inland water (in lakes, reservoirs, and rivers) as Minnesota. In fact, Alaska has 3 million lakes over twenty acres big.

The lakes grow when rapid warming melts a lake’s frozen bank, and the soggy soil loses its strength and slides into the water. Such lakes are found in the permafrost zone in Alaska, northern Canada and northern Russia. Pelletier’s interest in oriented lakes was sparked by teaching geomorphology, the study of landforms.

Iliamna Lake

Alaska contains abundant natural resources, including ground water and surface water of chemical quality that is generally suitable for most uses. The central part of Alaska is drained by the Yukon River and its tributaries, the largest of which are the Porcupine, the Tanana, and the Koyukuk Rivers.