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The meaning of King Cotton meant that slavery had a firm economic hold on the American psyche in the North and South.
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The Anaconda plan was Winfield Scott's original plan for fighting the rebellion. It was a widely thought of as an outlined strategy for conquer.
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• Trading with Europe
• Best Military Officers
• Long Coast lines make it difficult to blockade
• Fighting on own soil
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• Banking, Factories, Ships
• Experienced Government
• More railroads to transport supplies, equipment and men.
• Large Navy
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Abraham Lincoln became the sixteenth president on this date.
In his inaugural address, Lincoln proclaimed that it was his main job to hold down the Union. He also declared that he had no intention of ending slavery where it existed, or of repealing the Fugitive Slave Law -- a position that scared the African Americans and their white allies. -
With 43 Confederate guns, Battle of Fort Sumter was the bloodiest war ever in history and left tons of people dead.
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Lincoln's statement, however, did not satisfy the Confederacy, and on April 12 they attacked Fort Sumter (a federal stronghold in Charleston, South Carolina.) Federal troops returned the fire. And then the Civil War had begun.
Fort Sumter was captured, and bombarded by 3,000 shells in flying the rebel “stars and Bars” flag. -
Residents of the western counties of Virginia did not wish to secede along with the rest of the state.
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Although the view on slavery for these four states (Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri) these slave states did not join the Confederacy. Although it was separated in their loyalties pressure from the Union Military and some political changes these four states kept from seceding.
