Civil War Begins

Open Ended

Going into the Civil War, what advantages and disadvantages do you think both the North and the South have?

Multiple Choice

We, the people of the ----------- States, each State acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God do ordain and establish this Constitution for the ------------States of America.

• United States

• Confederate States

Poll

Do you think it would have been possible to restore the Union without having a Civil War?

• Yes

• No

Open Ended

"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.

Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations and had never recanted them; and more than this, they placed in the platform for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read:

Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.:

Based on this quote from Abe Lincoln, what was his original view of slavery in the South?

Open Ended

President Lincoln ordered the Union to not fire until the Rebels had fired first, why do you think that he ordered them to do this?

Open Ended

Why do you believe Lincoln had issues recruiting soldiers from border states? (light blue states)