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Radical Confederate leaders, especially the ones in South Carolina, believed that having Fort Sumter, in the Charleston harbor would signal to US President Lincoln, that they were sincere about leaving the Union. By engaging in the bombardment of Federal forts, especially Sumter, this would increase Confederate morale and bring other slave states like Virginia into the Confederacy.
In some cases Native Americans fought with the Confederacy because they believed that the Federal government had treated them badly. They, in some cases decided to help the South because they believed the Federal government would continue to force Native Americans on to reservations.
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The South was called the Confederacy.
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as they seceded from the Union the Southern states took over of the federal forts inside their borders
Because it was in Charleston Harbour, and the Confederacy was trying to assert its sovereignty over the whole of South Carolina. Lincoln did not recognise the Confederacy, and continued to occupy the fort with US troops.
Fort Sumter - in Charleston Harbour (South Carolina), where the Confederacy was trying to assert its authority as a separate nation.
After Lincoln's warning to the South, many southerners ignored his warning, taking over federal buildings such as post offices and forts, blocking supply routes to the forts, and starting the civil war by firing at Fort Sumter.
The south was known as the confederacy.
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Radical Confederate leaders, especially the ones in South Carolina, believed that having Fort Sumter, in the Charleston harbor would signal to US President Lincoln, that they were sincere about leaving the Union. By engaging in the bombardment of Federal forts, especially Sumter, this would increase Confederate morale and bring other slave states like Virginia into the Confederacy.
since the confederacy was the south. the confederacy was opposed by the north
The US Civil War was started by attack on Federal Fort Sumter in the Charleston harbor in South Carolina. Sumter had to surrender & President Lincoln took his first steps to aid Fort Sumter & to prepare to defend Federal forts and other Federal property located in the "South".
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He reinforced federal forts in South Carolina to show that he was serious about collecting the revenues. Nevertheless, Andrew Jacksons administration did not address the tariff concerns.
Confederacy is the South