1. Objective 3.02 Analyze and assess the causes of the Civil War

2. Harriet Beecher Stowe Abraham Lincoln said that this was the “little woman that started the big war”, wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

3. Election of 1860 Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th President of the United States prompting southern states to secede

4. Secession To withdraw from the Union

5. Fort Sumter, SC Built to protect the harbor at Charleston South Carolina during the War of 1812, site of the first shots of the Civil War

6. Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the US and served during the Civil War, Assassinated in 1865

7. Jefferson Davis 1st and only President of the Confederacy

8. Confederation/Confederacy Loose association of states, Southern government established after secession