Lesson 103-104

-The Election of 1860

• Abraham Lincoln is elected president and is hated by many in the South.

-Southern Secession

• After Lincoln is elected, southerners start immediately planning their secession from the Union.  A southern delegation elects Jefferson Davis as the president of the Confederate States of America.
• Civil war breaks out when Union soldiers refuse to abandon the southern Fort Sumter.  The Confederacy attacks the fort, and the Union surrenders it after several hours of cannon fire.