12. The Firing on Fort Sumter Battle of Fort Sumter April 12 and 13, 1861 Fort Sumter was a Union Fort in the bay of Charleston, SC. The Confederate forces attacked the fort, saying that since it was in Confederate territory, it should be a confederate fort.
27. The Union Blockade With the blockade of Southern ports, such as Savannah, Charleston and New Orleans, the South was not able to ship out cotton to sale in England, nor were they able to receive finished materials from England or France.
http://www.nps.gov/archive/apco/rocco.htm http://www.nps.gov/archive/apco/gentl.htm (The Gentlemen’s Agreement) This would be a great reading lesson and hypothesizing lesson for the studnets.