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Date Posted: 18:04:52 11/12/02 Tue
Author: Cassie
Subject: CH.14 Fort Sumter

FOrt Sumter
-Union force were running short on supplies
-afraid would have to evcuate
-a dilemma came up whether or not the confederates should let the union send in supplies
-if so they would come off cowardly and if not it would be an act of aggresion

*War Begins
-confederates decided to take the fort
-Union refused and had to give up the fort in the end,thus starts the war
-Lincoln immediatly prepared North for war
-then four more states left (Virginia april 1861, Arkansas may1861,Tennesseejune1861, North Carolina may1861)

*Was there a way to prevent the war?
-historians asked the question: Was there anything Lincoln(or those before him)could have done to settle the sectional conflict peacably?
-to let the south leave in peace
-north and south both believed that they were so very much diffrent

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