Part one of term paper
During the 1800's the United States was severely torn over sectional issues, being political, social as well as economic in nature. The principle struggle between the North and South arose over slavery. This controversy came to be so divisive that the Southern Democrats who favored the continuation and expansion of the slave institution, t ...

Part two of term paper
... from the Union to form the Confederate States of America. This new confederation of states chose Jefferson Davis to be its new leader at the Confederate Convention in Montgomery. Both new Presidents were faced with difficult decisions very early in their administration of which the dilemma of Fort Sumter was one of the first and most important. Fort Sumter was constructed at the entrance of the Harbor of Charleston in South Carolina. In 1860 when South Carolina seceded, Major Anderson of the ...