PPT-Fort Sumter

Who held the territory Ft Sumter was federally owned but located in South Carolina in Charleston Harbor Major Robert Anderson was in control of the fort with federal union troops March 5 1861 Confederate officials demanded Anderson surrender. Introduction:. Abraham Lincoln took the presidential oath on March 4, 1861. . He came into . Washington disguised to escape assassins. He thus became the president of the dis- United States of America. American people would endure four years of anguish and bloodshed, and Lincoln would face tortuous trials of leadership such have been visited upon few presidents. . 16.1: . War Erupts. Today’s Essential Question: What important decisions did President Lincoln have to make in . the first few weeks of the Civil . War?. Vocabulary. dilemma. . – a difficult problem with two equally undesirable solutions. 15. THE CIVIL WAR. This Currier and Ives lithograph shows the opening moment of the Civil War. On April 12, 1861, Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard ordered the shelling of Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor. Two days later, Union Major Robert Anderson surrendered, and mobilization began for what turned out to be the most devastating war in American history. . “Opening Salvo” by Fergus M. Bordewich . Smithsonian. April 2011 pg 76. How would the United States resolve the clash between its founding ideals and slavery. The explosive answer came on April 12, 1861 when Confederate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor.. Sumter City-County Planning Department. Sumter, SC.  August 3, 2015.  . August 3, 2015.  .  . What is the difference between Wisdom and Knowledge?. Who can tell me the difference in less than 7 words?. Secession and Fort Sumter. Review. Who was U.S. president during most of the Civil War?. What advantages did the North have over the South at the outset of the Civil War?. What was the primary cash crop in the South when the southern . War . B. egins. South Carolina’s Declaration of Causes of Secession. 12/1860 South Carolina’s fire-eaters (pro-slavery extremists) passed an ordinance of secession, citing the following causes behind this decision:. The menace of Secession. President Abraham Lincoln declared that secession was impractical because the North and South were not geographically divided.  He also stated that with secession, new controversies would arise, including the national debt, federal territories, and the fugitive-slave issue.. 1861-1865. The regimental colors of the 19th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment were damaged in battle during the American Civil War.. 2. The Civil War. Who was involved? . #1 The Confederate States of America. Today’s Essential Question: What important decisions did President Lincoln have to make in . the first few weeks of the Civil . War?. Vocabulary. dilemma. . – a difficult problem with two equally undesirable solutions. 1860 Election. Library of Congress. 1860 Election. http://faculty.umf.maine.edu/walter.sargent/public.www/web 232/sumter page.html. 1860 Election. Red. – Lincoln. Yellow. – Bell. Blue. – Douglas. The first shots of the Civil War were fired at . Fort Sumter on April 12 1861. Most people . t. hought their side would win quickly and easily.. . T. hey were both wrong. . Northern advantage. North 22 million/South 5.5 free persons . South Carolina secedes….calls on the Union to give up their forts in S.C.’s territory. Four more states Secede. 8.Virginia (April 17; referendum May 23, 1861). 9. Arkansas (May 6). 10. Tennessee (May 7; referendum June 8). Union fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. Confederacy. Nation formed by Southern states. Robert E. Lee. Confederate general, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia. Border States. Slave states that bordered states in which slavery was illegal.