States' rights was the justification for nullification and later secession.
States Rights - This issue is a direct outgrowth of the South's fear that the North would pass laws that would hurt it's lifestyle. tariffs and laws to restrict or abolish slavery. The south again claimed they had the right of nullification.
Fort Sumter is most famous for being the site of the first shots of the Civil War (1861-65). U.S.
Where:
South Carolina
Winner:
Confederates
Importance:
First battle of the American Civil War
The Battle of Fort Sumter was important because it started the bloodiest war in U.S. history, the American Civil War. (1861-1865
The battle started on April 12,1861 when the Southern troops attacked Fort Sumter with cannons. The Union men where out-gunned, they did not have many supplies left, they could not do much damage to the Southern troops.
"I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came."
"The time for war has not yet come, but it will come, and that soon; and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard."