To Try to Prevent Border States, Such as Maryland, Delaware

To try to prevent border states, such as Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and Kentucky, from seceding, Lincoln

A) assured them he would not interfere with their state laws governing slavery.
B) offered them economic and political incentives to side with the Union.
C) jailed secessionists, arrested sympathetic state legislators, and limited the press.
D) ordered Union troops to each state's capital to provide support.