Slavery
Which states felt it was inhumane to claim ownership of another human being.
Northern States
Abraham was smart, even though he only went to
school for
18 months.
The first state to secede from the Union.
South Carolina
Fort Sumter was a Union fort located in which state
South Carolina
Plantation owners in the South argued they needed slaves to help them.....
on their huge tobacco and cotton plantations.
Three years later, after being elected to the Illinois state legislature, Abraham Lincoln
and became a lawyer.
11 Southern states separated from the Union formed a new government named
The Confederate States of America.
President Jefferson Davis demanded the Union
surrender the fort because
it was in Confederate territory.
Slavery has been a part of American history since the early
1600s
Abraham Lincoln was popular for
his views on slavery and his ability to debate
The President of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis
On April 12, 1861,
Confederate troops fired cannonballs at Fort Sumter.
Abolitionists in the North angered
slave owners by providing a path of freedom
to slaves on what became known as the
Underground Railroad.
Abraham Lincoln became a candidate for president of the United States in the year
1860
Jefferson Davis believed
believed that states should make their own decisions about many important things.
Who won the battle of Fort Sumpter?
the Confederacy
Because of all the arguing between the northern and southern states people feared
the United States was falling apart.
President Lincoln promised Americans that the Union would not go to war with the Confederacy unless
the Confederacy attacked first.