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Lincoln elected. Confederacy formed. Sumter attacked. Emancipation Proclamation issued.
The confederacy of the southern states wanted Fort Sumter to have a foot hold on the harbors. The confederacy held possession of Fort Sumter until February 1865, when the North came in and raised the Northern states flag and regained control of Fort Sumter.
By calling for volunteer troops. This was the equivalent to declaring war, and four states of the Upper South joined the Confederacy. The two sides were lined-up. The war was on.
Abraham lincoln for the union and jefferson davis for the confederacy
After the surrender of Fort Sumter, Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers for the army. He time the volunteers would serve was for three months. Lincoln's response to to quickly end the rebellion, and he was certain it would.
To assert their nationhood. Sumter was in South Carolina, founder-state of the Confederacy - a nation that Lincoln did not recognise.
Established a naval blockade around the Southern states
Buchanan wasn't President so he didn't respond. Lincoln was president.
As a sign that they did not recognise the Confederacy.
he made a army to fight fort sumert
To assert the integrity of the United States, and to demonstrate that he did not acknowledge the Confederacy.