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 * North
 * The government is already up and running
 * Huge advantage in manufacturing weapons
 * Bigger population as more immigrants
 * South
 * Winging their new government
 * Very reliant on cotton. When no one buys the cotton and cannot sell the cotton, the South's economy is destroyed before the emancipation of the slaves in the South.
 * Less population than the Union as they had 80% of their soldiers' ages 15-50 in the military.
 * The Confederates take some of the best trained, ranked and experienced generals as most of them were from the south.

Prelude to Fort Sumter

 * Lincoln has taken office and he has promised that he won't attack slavery from where it is.
 * Federal forts around Charleston. Fort Sumter is the strategically most important fort, to which Buchanan keeps this fort. Supplies are running out in Fort Sumter. Lincoln supplies Fort Sumter after Buchanan's dilemma... but the difference is that Lincoln does not send weapons.
 * Buchanan's dilemma
 * January 1861 - Buchananan's attempt
 * Star of the West

Attacks on Fort Sumter
The confederacy fires the first shot. Lincoln allows the South to be the aggressor while the Union replies to the aggression. Beauregard of the South commits treason by firing to the Union. Anderson surrenders the fort to the Confederates.
 * April 12, 1861.

Lincoln calls for:
 * 75,000 volunteers to form an army and to put down the Confederation.
 * Congress needs to give Lincoln more money for military spendings.
 * He suspends a "writ of haveous corpus". This writ protects everyone from being jailed indefinitely without a trial.

Impact on the Upper South

 * Throughout April 1861, states in the Upper South (VA, NC, TN, AR) seceded because of Lincoln's call for troops to fight the Confederates. Richmond is the new capital of the Confederates from Montgomery. They needed the most northern city (Richmond) in order to benefit themselves in manufacturing. Though the Confederates were worried about Virginia's loyalty, so they put their capital in Virginia to keep Virginians motivated to be a part of the Confederates.

MO, KY, WV, MD, and DE do not secede as by June 1861 the Union takes over these states.

Anaconda Plan
 * Winfield Scott = General-in-Chief; a Mexican-American war hero.

Civil War Intrigue

 * Rose O'Neal Greenhow (Confederate)
 * Elizabeth Van Lev (Union)