Union and Confederate States

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Union and Confederate States

• SOL USI.9c The student will demonstrate
  knowledge of the causes, major events, and
  effects of the Civil War by c) identifying on a
  map the states that seceded from the Union and
  those that remained in the Union.

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Guided Notes

• 1) Southern states that were dependent upon
  labor-intensive CASH CROPS
• seceded from the Union.
• 2) Northernmost SLAVE STATES (border states)
  stayed in the Union.

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The Major Southern Cash Crops of the Civil War Era
Cotton became a major Southern cash crop
following the invention of the cotton gin
Tobacco was a traditional Southern cash crop
dating back all the way to 1607
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States that Seceded from the Union (Southern
Confederate States)

• Alabama
• Arkansas
• Florida
• Georgia
• Louisiana
• Mississippi

• North Carolina
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Virginia

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Confederate States Map
Anything South of Virginia belongs to the
Confederacy
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States that Remained in the Union The Border
States (Slave States)

• Delaware
• Kentucky
• Maryland
• Missouri

Why do you think it was important for the border
states to stay in the union?
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States that Remained in the Union Free States

• California
• Connecticut
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Maine
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New York
• Ohio

• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• Vermont
• West Virginia (Western counties of Virginia that
  refused to secede)
• Wisconsin

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Free Union States Map
What Color are the free Union states on this map?