SOUTHERN STATES FORM INDEPENDENT NATION In the mid 1800s most people in Slaves were black people who had the United States could not imagine been kidnapped from Africa They the nation splitting in two Yet that were brought to the United States was becoming a real possibility to work Slaves were forced to work Northern and Southern states without pay But slavery was illegal disagreed about slavery The South's in Northern states For decades economy was based on slavery Northern states had been pushing Enslaved people were forced to work PM without
Abraham Lincoln to make slavery illegal throughout the nation On November 6 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president Lincoln was a Northern Republican from Illinois He didn't believe in slavery Republicans wanted to ban slavery in any new US territory or state But they would allow slavery to continue in the states that already had it Lincoln agreed with this plan Southerners did not trust Lincoln They believed he and his supporters would pass laws to end slavery On December 20 1860 South Carolina voted to secede or break away from the nation Six more Southern states followed Alabama Florida Georgia Louisiana Mississippi and Texas Representatives of these seven states met on February 4 1861 They formed a separate nation They Number of states that left the Union before President Lincoln took office in 1861 called it the Confederate States Slavery was legal in the South It was illegal in the North of America They elected their own president Jefferson Davis Lincoln took office as president of a divided nation on March 4 1861 He Southern states that left the Union created their own nation It was called the Confederate States of America declared that secession was illegal He vowed to reunite the country Lincoln vowed to reunite the country
US ARMY OFFICERS RESIGN TO JOIN THE CONFEDERACY On April 12 1861 Confederate troops launched an attack on Fort belonged to the US government After two days of fighting the fort's federal troops surrendered The US Sumter in South Carolina Fort Sumter was a military fort in the Civil War had officially begun Now middle of Charleston Harbor It Dakota Territory Oregon ampshire Washington Michigan Nebraska Territory laware Iryland storms Territory New Mexico Territory The Iron Union States O Border States Confederate states Territories O The US Civil War divided the country in
generals in the US Army had to pick Virginia was home to many of the a side finest military men in the US Army One of these men was Robert E Lincoln responded to the Fort Lee a colonel He had served Sumter attack He called up 75 000 for 32 years But when Virginia volunteer troops These troops would seceded Lee resigned from the protect the United States or the US Army He joined the Confederate Union from the Confederacy Each Army as a major general to protect state still in the Union had to supply his home state Other military troops But some Southern states men including Thomas Jonathan did not want to fight against their Stonewall Jackson James Ewell Southern neighbors Arkansas North Brown Jeb Stuart and Joseph Carolina Tennessee and Virginia Eggleston Johnson followed suit seceded from the Union They joined the Confederacy 300 BORDER STATES Approximate number of US Army officers who resigned to fight for the Confederacy Not all Southern states that The remaining states in the United States were called the Union Lincoln called up 75 000 volunteer troops to protect the Union Some Southern officers did not want to fight against their home states Many left the US Army and joined the Confederate Army allowed slavery seceded Delaware Kentucky Maryland Missouri and West Virginia were slave states that remained in the Union They were called border states because they made up the border between the warring sides Some people in the border states agreed with the Confederacy Others supported the
