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The correct definition of a border state is: a free state that lies next to a slave state.
What is a border state in the time of the civil war?
This is a term that is used to refer to the slave states that did not secede from the Union.
During the time of the civil war the border states were made up of
- Delaware
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- Missouri
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