- Republican - If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
- Democrat - Territories should decide slavery for themselves (Popular sovereignty)
John Brown
- Strongly against slavery
- Want to lead a rebellion
- Attacked Harper Ferry, took weapon and gave them to slaves
- Failed, hanged
Election of 1860
- Northern Democrats - Stephen Douglass
- Southern Democrats - John Breckinridge
- Republican - Abraham Lincoln - Won
- South - feel powerless
- Decide to secede - quit the union
- South Caroline - first state to secede, later, GE, FL, MI, LA, AL, and TE had also left
- They name their group the Confederate States of America
- Jefferson Davis is the president
The Civil War Begins
Lincoln - want to avoid civil war
Fort Sumter
- A U.S. Government property
- Anderson - the commander of the fort
- Running low on supplies
- Lincoln - decide to let the ship go unarmed
- Confederates - demand Anderson to surrender
- April 12, 1861 - Confederates fired Fort - War Beginning
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