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What states seceded from the Union by February 1, 1861?
Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas joined South Carolina in seceding.
Who became president of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederate States of America.
What was Fort Sumter’s significance?
Fort Sumter controlled the entrance to South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor.
What event marked the beginning of the fighting in the Civil War?
Confederate forces fired on federal troops at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861.
What was Lincoln’s response to the attack on Fort Sumter?
Lincoln declared the South to be in rebellion and requested 75,000 militiamen.
Which states joined the Confederacy after Lincoln’s call for troops?
North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Arkansas joined the Confederacy.
What were the Border States that remained in the Union?
Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri remained in the Union.
Why were Kentucky and Missouri important during the Civil War?
They controlled parts of the Ohio & Mississippi Rivers.
What new state was created in 1863?
West Virginia was created in 1863.
What was a major advantage of the North?
The North had a much larger population, providing more soldiers.
What advantages did the South have?
The South had many skilled officers and a strong military tradition.
What was the Union’s military strategy?
Destroy the South’s economy through a naval blockade of southern seaports.
What was the Confederate strategy?
Fight a defensive war to wear down the Union’s will to fight.
What was ‘cotton diplomacy’?
The belief that Great Britain would support the Confederacy because cotton was important to its textile industry.
What happened to the idea of letting southern states go?
Some northerners believed the Union should just let those southern states go at the time the Confederacy was formed.
