The torah(old testment) .
The border states were important to the north during the Civil War because they were slave states that could have joined the Confederacy. *put into own words*
3. The Seventeenth Amendment altered the process for electing United States Senators and changed the way vacancies would be filled. Under the original constitutional provision, state legislatures filled vacancies when a Senator left office before the end of their term.
I have no clue about the others sorry to disappoint