 Abraham
Lincoln’s name did not appear
on the ballot in ten states
 Lincoln won all free states except New
Jersey
 John C. Breckinridge, with a southernrights platform, won the entire Lower
South
 Lincoln won in the Electoral College by
28 votes
 Also
known as
the
Confederacy,
was a
government set
up in 1861 by
seven southern
slave states that
had declared
their secession
from the U.S..
 Jefferson
Davis
• Would it fight against the Lower South or the
Union?
 Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia joined
the Confederacy of Texas, So. Carolina, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas
 Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri?
• In the end 11 of the 15 slave states joined the
Confederate States of America; four of the
seceding Upper South states contained
significant numbers of people who felt little
affection for the Confederacy
• Spring 1861 occupied
by 80 US soldiers
• It is at the entrance to
Charleston Harbor
• For the south it
represented the nation
they had abandoned
• For the North it was a
symbol of federal
sovereignty in the
seceded states
 Lincoln
had to provision it, but did not
send troops
 For Jefferson Davis the territorial
integrity of the Confederacy demanded
the end of the US presence;
 He sent troops against advice of his
colleagues
 Anderson
surrendered
 Lincoln called for 75,000 militiamen to
serve for 90 days to put down the
rebellion
NORTH
 Expecting
SOUTH
to win
• Lincoln strategy
applied pressure at
many points, and
blocked the export
and sale of the
South’s cotton crop
• Neither side
predicted the
magnitude and
duration of the war
• South believed it would
triumph despite enormous
advantages of the Union
• South believed North was
dependent on its cotton
crop,
• South believed cotton
would make Europe its ally
• Confederacy military
strategy of the South to stay
at home, blunt invasions,
avoid battles that risk its
army, and outlast the
North’s will to fight
• Southern sympathizers roamed Missouri for
the duration of the conflict
• In the border states, it became a ‘brothers’
war” dividing families over the issue of
slavery
 At
first it appeared the South had the
advantage
 Lincoln had little military experience but
he made up for it with wise cabinet
choices; his rhetorical skills roused the
North
 Davis turned out to be quarrelsome and
proud and made some enemies
 Rivers
key to military situation
 Mississippi
 Tennessee
 Cumberland
 Missouri
Battle of Pea Ridge left the state
free of Confederates army
 Rebel failures in the far West meant there
would be no Confederate empire beyond
Texas
 Union Navy—three dozen ships on 3,500 miles of
coastline
 Eventually grew to 150 blockade ships
 Confederates could not compete with a conventional
Navy, so improvised, ironclad warship, and
underwater vessels
 Confederates
sought foreign help,
hoping cotton-starved Europeans would
help
 No other country challenged the Union
blockade or recognized the Confederate
States of America as a nation
 Lincoln announced that an alliance with
the Confederacy was an alliance with
slavery