Fort Sumter and the Confederacy Answers

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Why does Davis believe Southern states had the right to secede?

Government does not rest on the consent of the governed.

The government had become destructive to the South.

The government has the right to abolish the government if states choose to secede.

Why did the crisis at Fort Sumter pose a challenge for President Lincoln?

He wanted to avoid violence and war and yet could not accept secession.

The fort was strategically placed so that it was impossible to take control of it by force.

The Confederacy allowed supply ships into the fort but still demanded its surrender.

Why did Lincoln think it was important to keep the border states in the Union?

This region was home to the South’s best generals.

The area contained a majority of the South’s manufacturing capacity.

If the border states remained in the Union, the Confederacy would refuse to go to war.

What does Lincoln mean by saying “the rule of a minority . . . is inadmissible”?

The enslaved persons in the South did not have the right to vote.

As a minority, the South had the right to write its own constitution.

Democracy does not work if people do not respect the results of an election.

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