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Secession What should we do???? We Out!! • Once Lincoln won the Presidency, South Carolina secedes from the Union • Mississippi’s governor then calls the legislature into a special session to decide what to do. Special Session Ballot Secede Not secede • Most of Mississippi’s delegates now favored secession • *** In the early 1850s they were totally for staying in the Union but now…… things are very different • 84 of the 99 delegates voted for secession • **** Secede= to leave Union States Buffer States States that seceded after the fall of Fort Sumter States that seceded before the fall of Fort Sumter • Mississippi was the second state to secede from the Union • Followed by Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas • Sent representatives to Montgomery Alabama and formed the Confederate States of America • The Confederacy • Jefferson Davis (from Mississippi) was elected to be the president • The Confederacy vowed to protect their way of life by preserving slavery and granting individual states states’ rights. • The first capital of the Confederacy was in Montgomery Alabama Think about this • Prior to 1860, we were one nation with one military • Now we are two nations with two militaries • What about all those U.S. military posts? What if they were in Confederate territory??? • Fort Sumter was in this predicament!!!! Behind Enemy Lines!!!! Fort Sumter • Once South Carolina seceded from the Union they told the U.S. troops to leave their state – They didn’t: • American troops are now surrounded by Confederate militia – They seek shelter inside Fort Sumter, which had been abandoned… lack of supplies and food – To get supplies to them American soldiers must pass through Confederate lands! • The first effort to get supplies to the troops was the steamship the Star of the West, Confederate forces fire upon the ship the ship is forced to turn around • South Carolina troops demands that the U.S. troops surrender Fort Sumter • They refuse!! – More southern states are meeting to decide on secession! – Lincoln decides to send another relief effort to Fort Sumter • South Carolina forces demand an evacuation of Fort Sumter or a forced bombardment of the fort –Evacuate on a certain day without the use of guns • General Anderson (US general in charge of Fort Sumter) complies to an evacuation but does not promise to use guns! • Relief efforts are starting to show up too! After Fort Sumter • Four more states seceded from the Union – Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas • They were working on secession conventions when Fort Sumter crisis began • The Civil War has now begun in 1861!!!!