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[[Unionism]] was the support for remaining in the Union among the people of states where [[slavery]] was legal.  It was sufficiently strong in Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri to keep those states from [[secession|seceding]], and inspired the [[Republican Party]] to change its name to [[Unionist]] for the [[1864 Presidential election]] only, when [[President]] [[Abraham Lincoln]] chose [[Tennessee]] [[Governor]] [[Andrew Johnson]] as his running mate.  Persons originating in the other 22 states of the Union have forever after been known in the South as [[Yankees]], although the term is sometimes also misused to describe people from [[Nebraska]], [[North Dakota]] and [[South Dakota]].

[[Unionism]] was the support for remaining in the Union among the people of states where [[slavery]] was legal.  It was sufficiently strong in Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri to keep those states from [[secession|seceding]], and inspired the [[Republican Party]] to change its name to [[Unionist]] for the [[1864 Presidential election]] only, when [[President]] [[Abraham Lincoln]] chose [[Tennessee]] [[Governor]] [[Andrew Johnson]] as his running mate.  Persons originating in the other 22 states of the Union have forever after been known in the South as [[Yankees]], although the term is sometimes also misused to describe people from [[Nebraska]], [[North Dakota]] and [[South Dakota]].

==See Also==

==See also==

*[[Confederate States of America]]

*[[Confederate States of America]]

[[Category: American Civil War]]

[[Category:American Civil War]]