1. Civil War: War Begins

2. Crisis! Seven states had seceded prior to Lincoln’s inauguration

3. “In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn oath to ‘preserve, protect and defend’ it.” —Abraham Lincoln First Inaugural Address

4. Fort Sumter Ft. Sumter—one of the most important federal outposts in the South

5. Fort Sumter Controlled entrance to Charleston Harbor in South Carolina

6. Fort Sumter March 1861: fort running low on supplies Lincoln orders resupply of fort South Carolina orders fort to surrender

7. Fort Sumter Confederate commander who ordered surrender Pierre Beauregard

8. Fort Sumter Union commander who refused to leave Robert Anderson

9. Fort Sumter April 12, 1861: Confederates open fire on Ft. Sumter

11. Fort Sumter Anderson surrenders after 34 hour bombardment- Lincoln calls for militia to stop the rebellion- THE WAR HAS BEGUN!!

12. Choosing Sides After Fort Sumter, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, & Arkansas secede

13. West Virginia later broke away from Virginia and was quickly added to the Union as a new state.

14. Choosing Sides Border States— slave states of strategic importance to both the North & South (Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri) –Stayed with the Union

15. The Volunteer Spirit Union army had only 16,000 troops –Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers

16. The Volunteer Spirit Had four brothers who fought for the Confederacy Families Divided: Mary Todd Lincoln

17. Union Advantages Population Railroads Industry Money

18. Confederate Advantages Military Tradition/Leaders Defensive War

19. Union Strategy Anaconda Plan

20. Winfield Scott

21. Union Strategy Naval Blockade of southern ports Control Mississippi River to divide South Take Confederate capital at Richmond, VA

23. Confederate Strategy Attack Washington D.C. Cotton Diplomacy “Wear Down” Union through Defense

24. Confederate Strategy Cotton diplomacy—used by the south to try to gain foreign support (allies) in exchange for cotton

25. North v. South North: –Union –Navy Blue Uniforms –Lincoln was president –Capital at Washington, DC South: –Confederacy –Grey Uniforms –Jefferson Davis was president –Capital at Richmond, VA