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Apush chapter 20 the progressives coursenotes

Lincoln had turned a tactical defeat into a calculated victory Southerners had fired upon the glorious Stars and Stripes and honor demanded an armed response.

The shelling of the fort electrified the North, which at once responded the cries of “Remember Fort Sumter” and “Save the Union” (fort was lost, but the Union was saved).

After a thirty-four-hour bombardment, the dazed garrison surrendered (no lives lost).

A Union naval force was next started on its way to Fort Sumter-a move that the South regarded as an act of aggression and on April 12, 1861, the cannon of the Carolinians opened fire on the fort, while the crowds in Charleston applauded.

He notified the South Carolinians that an expedition would be sent to provision the garrison, though not to reinforce it but Southern eyes saw otherwise.

After agonizing indecision, Lincoln adopted a middle-of-the-road solution.Lincoln did not feel that Fort Sumter was strong enough to take as his obligation to protect federal property-but if he sent reinforcements, the South Carolinians would undoubtedly fight back-could not tolerate federal fort blocking important sea port.This stronghold had provisions that would last only few weeks-until middle of April 1861 and if no supplies were forthcoming, its commander would have to surrender.Ominously the choices presented to Lincoln by Fort Sumter were all bad.The issue of the divided Union came to a head over the matter of federal forts in the South as the seceding states left, they had seized the United States’ arsenals, mints, and other public property within their borders (Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor).The colonies of the European powers in the New World, notably those of Britain would thus be made safer against the rapacious Yankees (defy Monroe Doctrine seize territory).A united US had been paramount republic in the Western Hemisphere if this powerful democracy should break into two hostile parts, the European nations would be delighted they could gleefully transplant to America their ancient concept of the balance of power.How would the fugitive-slave issue be resolved-the Underground Railroad would certainly redouble its activity and it would have to transport its passengers only across the Ohio River, not all the way to Canada (conceivable to solve all such problems?).Uncontested secession would create new controversies what share of the national debt should the South be forced to take with it? What portion of the jointly held federal territories, if any, should the Confederate states be allotted?.

The North and South were bound inseparably together (no sectional divorce).

Lincoln’s inaugural address was firm yet conciliatory there would be no conflict unless South provoked it secession was wholly impractical because couldn’t physically separate.