Prompt: What did it mean for Kentucky to be a “border state” during the Civil War era? You can discuss, among other things, the historical and geographical trends of slavery within Kentucky; the proslavery, moderate antislavery, and abolitionist factions of the antebellum slavery debate; the results of the 1860 presidential election in Kentucky; Kentucky’s pro-Union and pro-Confederate factions during the secession crisis; the waging of the war itself; and the aftermath of the war during Reconstruction.

A source that can be used:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/PresidentialCounty1860Colorbrewer.gif

a source that can be used is:
https://omeka.coloredconventions.org/state-conventions#Kentucky (only use Kentucky)

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