This follws VA SOL USI.9bc

1. USI.9bc

2. a) The South feared that the North would take control
of Congress. They believed that they had the power
to declare any national law illegal.
b) The North believed that the nation was a union that
could not be divided. They believed that the national
government’s power was supreme over that of the
states.

3. a) The North didn’t have a need or have a place for
slavery in its society.
b) Southerners believed that slavery was necessary for
the economic success of their society. They believed
abolition would destroy their economy.

4. a) A series of compromises enacted in the U.S.
Congress managed to hold the Union together.
b) Each compromise was created in order to help
balance the power between the North and South by
deciding if new states would be slave states or free
states.

5. a) Balanced the numbers of slave and free states, by
allowing Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state
and Maine to enter the Union as a free state.

6. a) After the Mexican War, the United States gained
territory in the West. California entered the Union as
a free state. The Southwest territories would decide
the slavery issue for themselves.

7. a) Repealed the Missouri Compromise
b) Stated that the issue of slavery would be decided by
the residents of each territory, a concept known as
popular sovereignty

8. a) Secede- to formally withdraw (leave) a union or
alliance
b) After Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860, many
Southern states left the Union because they feared he
would abolish slavery.
c) The Southern states formed their own country: The
Confederate States of America, with Jefferson Davis as
their president.

9. a) Confederate States: Alabama,
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
Louisiana, Mississippi, North
Carolina, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas, Virginia
b) Border States (Union slave
states): Delaware, Kentucky,
Maryland, Missouri
c) 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, Wisconsin