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Essential Question
What led to secession and war, and how did
the Civil War forever change the nation and
South Carolina?
How did strategies of the Union and the
Confederacy differ at the beginning of the
Civil War?
CHAPTER 5
LESSON 1
A Nation Divided
Southern States Secede
The Debate Over Secession
Within a month of Lincoln’s
election South Carolina
ratified its Ordinance of
Secession.
Four days later, state leaders
drafted “The Declaration of
the Immediate Causes Which
Induce and Justify the
Secession of South Carolina
from the Federal Union.”
South Carolina was the first
state to secede from the
Union.
Secessionists
Cooperationists
Unionists
How did each of these
groups view secession?
Why do you think people
celebrated the secession?
The Union Dissolved
What was the purpose of this
document? How did it justify
secession?
Secession meeting in Charleston
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The War Begins
In February 1861 six
southern states
formed a new
country—
country the
Confederate States
of America with
Jefferson Davis as
president.
Fort Sumter was a Union
fort in Confederate
territory.
Lincoln sent a letter to the
Confederacy announcing
plans to send a supply
ship to the fort.
Confederate leaders told
Lincoln the ship would
not be allowed to dock,
but Lincoln sent it
anyway.
The Confederates
demanded that
Fort Sumter
surrender and
when it did not,
the Confederates
opened fire on the
fort, signaling the
start of the Civil
War.
Secession Expands
Virginia joins Confederacy within
days of attack on Ft. Sumter.
Three more states join within
two months, bringing total to 11
Confederate states versus 23
Union states.
Four slaveholding southern states
(border states) remain in
Union—Maryland,
Union Maryland, Delaware,
Kentucky, and Missouri.
Military Strategies
The Union’s Anaconda Plan
How did the two sides
compare?
Which side do you think
had more significant
advantages?
How so?
ThreeThree-part plan to destroy the
South
1) Blockade the entire
southern coastline.
2) Gain control of the
Mississippi River and split
the Confederacy in two.
3) Capture the Confederate
capital in Richmond,
Virginia.
How would each of these three parts to the plan help the Union
achieve its goal and win the war?
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Military Strategies
The South’s Defensive War
Repel a Union invasion
Break the Union naval blockade
Win foreign support with “Cotton Diplomacy.”
Attack and possibly capture the Union capital at Washington,
DC.
What was meant by “Cotton Diplomacy”? From which foreign
countries did the Confederacy seek support?
Why did foreign intervention never materialize?
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