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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. Guided Notes.
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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.
Guided Notes • 1) Southern states that were dependent upon labor-intensive CASH CROPS • seceded from the Union. • 2) Northernmost SLAVESTATES (border states) stayed in the Union.
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
Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia States that Seceded from the Union (Southern Confederate States)
Confederate States Map Anything South of Virginia belongs to the Confederacy
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?
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 States that Remained in the Union: Free States
Free Union States Map What Color are the free Union states on this map?