Border States
Americanplural noun
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U.S. History. the Slave States of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, which refused to secede from the Union in 1860–61.
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the U.S. states touching the Canadian border.
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certain countries of central and northern Europe that border on the former Soviet Union and belonged to the Russian Empire: Finland, Poland (prior to 1940), Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Example Sentences
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For 25 years before the Civil War no one knew which way the Border States would go if war came.
From Time Magazine Archive
Smith would have to carry most of the Border States to be within striking distance.
From Time Magazine Archive
He made a clean sweep of the Midwest, the Mountain and Border States, the West Coast, appeared to have lost only Arizona in the Southwest.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Old Confederacy and the Border States nominated the Republican ticket, and will shape its campaign.
From Time Magazine Archive
Border States, severity of war greatest in, 242; Lincoln's scheme for compensated emancipation in, 252; slave owners in alienated by emancipation proclamation, 261.
From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring
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