Section 1: The Secession Winter

I. The Secession Of the Lower Southa) Jefferson Davis b) William Gist and South Carolina c) The 2nd American Revolution d) Progress of Secession e) Types of Secession

III. The Reaction of the Buchanan Administration a) No Friends Leftb) AVOID WAR!!! (at least while I am around)c) The Forts

1) Charleston Harbor (Fort Moultrie and Fort Sumter)

IV. Congress and the Secession Crisis a) Committee of 33 (House of Representatives)

1) Charles Francis Adams (R-MA)

b) Committee of 13 (Senate)

1) John Crittenden (D-KY)

V. Buchanan Toughens up on Secession a) “Tisk, tisk, you are not supposed to do that!”b) The Star of the West

Section 2: Creation of the Confederacy

I. Montgomery, Alabama II. Alexander Stephens & Secession III. The Confederate Constitution

IV. President and Vice President of the Confederacy

Section 3: Lincoln, the Upper South and the Sumter Crisis

I. Lincoln Takes Office a) A Tough Startb) Lincoln’s Cabinet: Political Kickback c) Lincoln’s Inaugural Address

II. Southern Reaction to Lincoln’s Speech III. Reluctant Confederates

II. “I am a Union man, but when the Lincoln administration sends men South it will change my notions. I can do nothing against my own people.”