Attack on Fort Sumter

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April 11, 2026

On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces fired on South Carolina’s
Fort Sumter, South Carolina had left the Union the previous
December, When Abraham Lincoln took office in March, 1861, seven
Southern states had left the Union, forming their own provisional
government, The Confederate government rested on the belief
that Black men are not equal to white men, Northerners rejected
the white southerners’ attempt to destroy the principles of the
Declaration of Independence, After the attack on Fort Sumter,
Lincoln called for troops to put down the rebellion against the
government, The Civil War would take hundreds of thousands of
lives at huge cost, But by its end, the institution of human
enslavement was destroyed.

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