Social Sciences and History / Unit 1 SSH 0037 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Secession and the War's Opening
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The idea
John Brown's raid of eighteen fifty-nine inflamed the South and split the Democrats. Lincoln won in eighteen sixty; seven states seceded before he took office, and Fort Sumter fell on April twelfth, eighteen sixty-one.
In practice
Both sides expecting one short battle to settle it.
Where people slip
Losses at Manassas and Fredericksburg; gains at Shiloh, New Orleans and Memphis. The Union took the West first.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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