The seceded states created the Confederate States of America and elected Jefferson Davis ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four ...

electing Jefferson Davis as its president. On April 12, 1861, barely a month after Lincoln took office, Confederate forces fired on Union troops at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, and the Civil War ...

The American Civil War ... leading up to the war and what caused divisions. The White House of the Confederacy, nearby Tredegar, is the former home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

A statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis was torn down by protesters ... celebrate racism and tell a false narrative of the Civil War, and in the case of Columbus and other colonial ...

37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War was about slavery ... 38 Confederate President Jefferson Davis said similarly that “[w]e are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for independence.” ...