AP history Chpter 20-21

Which is true?

• First shots were at Fort Sumner, South Carolina

• First battle was at Bull Run

• First battle was at Fort Sumner, South Carolina

• First shots was at Bull Run

_ states already left the union before lincoln took office in march 1861

• 4

• 5

• 6

• 7

order of seceding states

• Florida, alabama, texas

• Mississippi, Florida, Alabama

• South Carolina, mississippi, florida

• Georgia, Louisiana, Texas

In Lincoln's Inaugural address he says he wont interfere with slavery in states it already exists

• True

• False

Lincoln sends provisions to Fort Sumner instead of reinforcements to show that he's not making an aggressive move

• True

• False

Impact of Fort Sumter

• Unites the North against the South to preserve the Union

• Virginia, Arkansa, North Carolina, and Tennesse join the Confederacy after the shots at Fort Sumner

• Starts the Civil WAr

• Lincoln's priority becomes making sure the Border States don't leave the Union

• Increases slavery

Why does Lincoln want the Border States (Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, MAryland & West Virginia) to stay in the Union

• If they left, the south would've gotten more men to fight

• The Southern manufactoring would've nearly doubled what the North has

• Would've had alot more horses for war

• Would've had more rivers for travel and trade

• To look better than the south

Why does Lincoln suspend habeas corpus (which is unconstitutional)

• To keep the Border States in the Union

• To stop a war from happening

• To make sure suspects go to jail immidiately without having a trial

• To lock up species living in the North

North advantages

• Controlled the sea (for the most part) and had railroad advantages (transportation)

• Better industrial resources, had majority of manufacturing

• Had more men. (22 mil to 9 mil)

• Had well established government

North disadvantages

• economy

• Had weak leaders at first. Lincoln uses trial and error until he find Grant.

• cotton

• Less prepared, northern men arent as used to fighting compared to Southern men.