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''For a group of workers bargaining collectively, see [[labor union]].''

<small>''For a group of workers bargaining collectively, see [[labor union]].''</small>

The American states which had already been admitted but did not secede in 1861 are collectively known as the '''Union.'''  In alphabetical order they were [[California]], [[Connecticut]], [[Delaware]], [[Illinois]], [[Indiana]], [[Iowa]], [[Kentucky]], [[Maine]], [[Maryland]], [[Massachusetts]], [[Michigan]], [[Minnesota]], [[Missouri]], [[New Hampshire]], [[New Jersey]], [[New York]], [[Ohio]], [[Oregon]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[Rhode Island]], [[Vermont]], [[Washington]] and [[Wisconsin]], for a total of 23.  During the war, [[Kansas]], [[Nevada]] and [[West Virginia]] were added for a wartime high of 26, as against 11 for the [[Confederacy]].  The Union's [[demography|demographic]] and [[industry|industrial]] advantage was somewhat greater than the 2.5 to 1 ratio of states would suggest.

The American states which had already been admitted but did not secede in 1861 are collectively known as the '''Union.'''  In alphabetical order they were [[California]], [[Connecticut]], [[Delaware]], [[Illinois]], [[Indiana]], [[Iowa]], [[Kentucky]], [[Maine]], [[Maryland]], [[Massachusetts]], [[Michigan]], [[Minnesota]], [[Missouri]], [[New Hampshire]], [[New Jersey]], [[New York]], [[Ohio]], [[Oregon]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[Rhode Island]], [[Vermont]], [[Washington]] and [[Wisconsin]], for a total of 23.  During the war, [[Kansas]], [[Nevada]] and [[West Virginia]] were added for a wartime high of 26, as against 11 for the [[Confederacy]].  The Union's [[demography|demographic]] and [[industry|industrial]] advantage was somewhat greater than the 2.5 to 1 ratio of states would suggest.

[[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]].

[[Category: American Civil War]]

[[Category: American Civil War]]