Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.
-
Upload
chad-montgomery -
Category
Documents
-
view
216 -
download
0
Transcript of Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.
![Page 1: Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062802/56649ea95503460f94bad852/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Secession Begins
United States of
America The Attack on Fort Sumter
![Page 2: Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062802/56649ea95503460f94bad852/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Main idea: Eleven southern states left the Union and formed their own government.
“We are not enemies, but friends….We must not be enemies.”
President Abraham Lincoln
![Page 3: Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062802/56649ea95503460f94bad852/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Delegates from 7 southern states meet in Montgomery, Alabama February 4, 1861- the 7 states vote
to form their own confederation. A confederacy is a political union of
people. They believed that states should be
allowed to decide their own laws: Ex. Decide if slavery was legal
President Lincoln disagreed
![Page 4: Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062802/56649ea95503460f94bad852/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
South Carolina withdraws first People voted to break away or secede from the Union on December 20, 1860
Over the next 6 weeks, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas soon followed
![Page 5: Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062802/56649ea95503460f94bad852/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Terms of the Confederacy The delegates decided that the
confederation should have more power than the central government
They called themselves the Confederate States of America
They elected Jefferson Davis as their President
![Page 6: Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062802/56649ea95503460f94bad852/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
• Fort Sumter, South Carolina, was important because it guarded Charleston harbor. The US (Union Army) still had troops in this fort.
* The Civil War had now begun!
Fort Sumter
•Why do you think the Confederacy attacked the fort?
![Page 7: Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062802/56649ea95503460f94bad852/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Let’s take a trip to Charleston, SC
Why would the southern states want to keep control
of this fort?
![Page 8: Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062802/56649ea95503460f94bad852/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor The Union had control of this key southern fort
The Confederates knew controlling the fort meant controlling the ships and the harbor
![Page 9: Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062802/56649ea95503460f94bad852/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
President Lincoln was determined to find a way to hold the country together without giving in to Confederate demands
He wanted:To avoid a war with the southernersThe southern states to return to the Union…
peacefully It was too late…
Attack on Fort Sumter
![Page 10: Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062802/56649ea95503460f94bad852/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Pvt. Edmund Ruffin, Confederate soldier who fired the first shot against Fort Sumter
Maj. Robert Anderson, defender of Fort Sumter
![Page 11: Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062802/56649ea95503460f94bad852/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
The first shot of the American Civil War didn't hit anything. It was a 10-inch mortar shell that exploded above Fort Sumter as a signal for Confederate artillery to open fire on the Union-held fort.
![Page 12: Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062802/56649ea95503460f94bad852/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
![Page 13: Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062802/56649ea95503460f94bad852/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
View of Fort Sumter from Charleston
![Page 14: Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062802/56649ea95503460f94bad852/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
![Page 15: Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062802/56649ea95503460f94bad852/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
![Page 16: Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062802/56649ea95503460f94bad852/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Fort during the battle
![Page 17: Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062802/56649ea95503460f94bad852/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Our voyage begins hereLiberty Square is the present day gateway to the fort. As you walk through the courtyard you are able to read messages from the past. Then you board a ferry for the hour ride to the site of the first shots that were fired.
![Page 18: Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062802/56649ea95503460f94bad852/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Present day entrance to Fort Sumter
![Page 19: Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062802/56649ea95503460f94bad852/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Five replicas of historic flags regularly fly over Fort Sumter. These represent a timeline of Civil War flags at the fort from 1861-1865.
![Page 20: Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062802/56649ea95503460f94bad852/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
The Battery This concrete structure occupies the
middle of Fort Sumter.
![Page 21: Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062802/56649ea95503460f94bad852/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
A 42 pounder smoothbore cannon at Fort Sumter.
![Page 22: Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062802/56649ea95503460f94bad852/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
100 pounder Parrott rifles still on their original carriages at Fort Sumter.
![Page 23: Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062802/56649ea95503460f94bad852/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
![Page 24: Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062802/56649ea95503460f94bad852/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
Ruins of Fort Sumter's Officer's Quarters and powder magazine
![Page 25: Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062802/56649ea95503460f94bad852/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
The Flag flies over Fort Sumter
On April 14, 1865, Union Maj. Gen. Robert Anderson came out of retirement
He re-raised the same U.S. flag over Fort Sumter that he had lowered in surrender four years earlier.
This flag is now on exhibit at the Fort Sumter Visitor Education Center.
![Page 26: Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062802/56649ea95503460f94bad852/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
Aerial view of Fort Sumter National Monument.
![Page 27: Secession Begins United States of America The Attack on Fort Sumter.](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062802/56649ea95503460f94bad852/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
Reaction to Fort Sumter
Lincoln’s Response -75,000 Volunteers and a blockade of all Southern ports
Both sides prepare for war