1. THE START OF THE WAR

2. • Lincoln felt that the
Union was permanent
and
therefore, secession
was not possible
• Lincoln hoped to
reconcile the sections
but would fight if
necessary

3. • Fort Sumter was a federal
(Union) fort in the
Confederacy
• What was Lincoln going
to do with it?

4. • Lincoln sent supplies to Fort Sumter
• He sent a note to the governor of South
Carolina before he sent it

5. • Confederates fired canons at Fort Sumter
• Union surrendered

7. • Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteer soldiers
• The border states had to decide if they would
join the Confederacy or the Union.
• Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and
Tennessee seceded

9. West Virginia
• Western part of Virginia opposed secession
• Joined the Union as West Virginia

10. Maryland
• If Maryland seceded, the capitol of the Union
would be in the Confederacy
• Lincoln declared martial law on Maryland
• Maryland didn’t have much choice but to stay
in the Union

12. Causes of the Civil War

13. 1. Union vs. Independence
• Did states have the right to secede?

14. • South felt that the rights and liberties of the
states must be preserved, even at the expense
of the Union

15. • The North felt that the Union must be
preserved above all else

16. 2. Slavery
• Slavery was not the PRIMARY cause of the war

17. • North were afraid of what Emancipation
would mean to the Northern job market
• South felt that the North was just interfering
with their lives

18. Who would win?
RESOURCES
• North had more people
• North had crops that could sustain people
(not cash crops)
• North had 2x the railroad mileage
• North had 5x number of factories
• North had 10x number of industrial workers

19. COMMANDING LEADERS
• South had superior military leadership

20. STRATEGY
• North’s plan was the Anaconda Plan.
– Slowly cut off the Confederacy’s ability to make
war

21. • South’s plan was to outlast the enemy’s will to
fight