Chapter Introduction Section 1 Slavery and Western Expansion

Chapter Introduction Section 1: Slavery and Western Expansion Section 2: The Crisis Deepens Section 3: The Union Dissolves Visual Summary

The Civil War Begins The plan to resupply Fort Sumter triggered the beginning of the Civil War.

The Civil War Begins (cont. ) • Confederate forces bombarded Fort Sumter for 33 hours, wrecking the fort but killing no one, until Anderson and his exhausted men surrendered. • The Civil War had begun. • President Lincoln then called for 75, 000 volunteers to serve in the military for 90 days.

The Civil War Begins (cont. ) • States in the upper South then began to secede. • With the upper South gone, Lincoln was determined to keep the slaveholding border states from seceding. • Lincoln imposed martial law in Baltimore, where mobs had already attacked federal troops. Seceding States, 1860– 1861

The Civil War Begins (cont. ) • Kentucky stayed neutral until September 1861; Kentuckians who supported the Confederacy seceded. • Missouri stayed with the Union. Seceding States, 1860– 1861

Why did Lincoln work so hard to prevent Maryland from seceding? A. He needed those men to help him fight the Confederacy. B. Maryland had important arsenals within its state lines. A. C. Washington, D. C. would be B. surrounded by Confederate territory. C. D. Some of the rivers were D. strategically important. A B C D

martial law the law administered by military forces that is invoked by a government in an emergency