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 SLAVE STATES (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
States that Seceded from the Union
(Southern Confederate States)
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Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
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North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Confederate States Map
Anything South of Virginia belongs to the Confederacy
States that Remained in the Union:
The Border States (Slave States)
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Delaware
Kentucky
Maryland
Missouri
Why do you think it was important for the border states to stay in
the union?
States that Remained in the Union:
Free States
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California
Connecticut
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Maine
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
Ohio
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Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Vermont
West Virginia
(Western counties of
Virginia that refused
to secede)
– Wisconsin
Free Union States Map
What Color are the free Union states on this map?