1. Fort Sumter & War
Chapter 14 Part 5

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3. Review
South viewed being part of the USA as ________; federal government = ____.
King/Government fails to keep _______ = people can _____
Federal government failed to keep its contract (____________).
States had right to _________ from the ______.

4. Federal Response
Lincoln: Union = ___________, inviolable; ________ not option
secession guaranteed ___________
Civil war = __________________; country fighting itself

5. Federal Response
Lincoln wanted _____________of federal territory in the South
Two federal forts in south: __________(FL) and __________ (SC)
_________ ordered to have to send supplies for them to defend themselves.

6. Firing on Fort Sumter Neither ________ nor _______ wanted war.
Lincoln hoped Confederacy would end.
Jefferson hoped Lincoln would see how serious the South was and would fix the government.
South Carolina saw Fort Sumter as “occupied by __________”
Lincoln saw withdrawing troops from Fort Sumter as __________.

7. Firing on Fort Sumter
Lincoln sent _______ soldiers with ________ to Fort Sumter.
Lincoln told the governor of SC who told _____________ who ordered the stop of any resupplying.
___________ fired on the supply ships and on Fort Sumter.
40 hrs later, Major Robert _________ (Union commander) ___________ Fort Sumter.

8. The Call for Troops Lincoln called for 75,000 _________
Border states: stay in Union or join Confederacy?
______________________ seceded.
Virginia: 50 counties in western VA upset; applied for separate __________ (won) and joined _______ as West Virginia.

9. States Who DIDN’T Secede
__________ —Lincoln convinced them to stay neutral
__________—troops sent to MO before war; kept rebellion away.
__________—one Lincoln most concerned about due to WA D.C.; declared martial law = citizen rights suspended and military controlled the state

10. Reasons for Northern Hope
Most important advantage = __________.
North could make its own _______.
South had to __________ with other countries.
Population – 300,000+ ___________ per year; immigrants = potential troops

11. Reasons for Southern Hope
1. Only needed to _________________ .
2. More _________; many immigrants in north—more “loyal” to old country.
3. Believed they would get ___________—biggest buyers of cotton in England.
4. Huge __________—hard to attack such large space
5. Better __________ —most commanding officers well-trained; _____________ joined Confederacy as he would have been fighting his own state had he stayed a Union general.
Lincoln had asked Lee to be the “commander-in-chief” of Union armies.