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Events that lead to the Civil War: 1860 & 1861 The Election of 1860: 4 Candidates for Pres. The Republicans picked Abe Lincoln as their candidate Democrats split over the issue of slavery in the West: Southerners wanted the party to support it while Northerners refused. Southern Democrats chose John Breckinridge Northern Democrats chose Stephen Douglas Some Americans tried to heal this split by creating a new political party The Constitutional Union Party, and they picked John Bell. Lincoln won the North and the Election Northerners outnumbered & outvoted southerners • With Lincoln’s election many southerners felt that they no longer had a voice in the national government. • Believed that the entire govt. was set against their interests, and their only choice was to secede. • 1st state to secede was South Carolina: Dec. 1860 • 6 more will join them and in Feb. 1861 they form the Confederate States of America • Lincoln opposed secession • Warns that there will be no war unless the South starts it • Confederates began taking over federal property: forts, post offices, etc. • Lincoln’s problem: should he let Confederates take over federal property? • If he did he was admitting they had the right leave while sending troops might start a war. • By April the Confederates had control of nearly all of the forts in the South. • The Union held only 3 forts in Florida and Fort Sumter in South Carolina, which guarded Charleston harbor • On April 12th the Confederates asked for Fort Sumter’s surrender. • The Union commander refused and the Confederates opened fire on the fort • On April 13th having run out of ammunition the Union forces surrender the fort. • No one was killed, but this event marked the beginning of the Civil War