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Because there were no Western territories at that time. It was before the Louisiana Purchase.
At the present time (in the year 2010) all 50 states support the union. There are no states that wish to secede.
The 36 columns represent the number of total number of states, in the nation or union, at the time of President Lincoln's death.
you should define the "time" you are asking for...
Thomas Jefferson
Primarily to keep the Union together and not let the States split. The Union (or the North) beleived that the Southern States did not have the right to leave the Union. That point of law has been debated for a long time.
ANSWER In January 1861, with exception of South Carolina which left the Union in December 1860
States in the union at the time of Lincoln's Presidency
The Louisiana Purchase gave the United States 22.3% of it's land mass, and almost tripled the size of the country at the time of it's purchase.
They said that the USA was a voluntary assembly of states, and any of them could quit the Union at any time.
They said that the USA was a voluntary assembly of states, and any of them could quit the Union at any time.
At the start of American Civil War in 1861 the population of Union states were 5 times more than Confederate states. Union states' population was 23 millions against 5 millions of Confederate states.