Fort+Sumter


 * Union Fort in South Carolina
 * Running out of supplies
 * Food, etc.
 * Lincoln did not want to surrender Fort Sumter because that would be recognizing the Confederacy as an independent country
 * The South needed to be recognized as credible
 * Lincoln sent an unarmed ship to the fort, full of supplies
 * The South attacked the ship, Fort Sumter fell to South Carolina, and the war began
 * Lincoln ultimately got what he wanted because the South started the war
 * First Innagural, he promised the North wouldn't attack and they didn't want a war
 * Politically good for Lincoln