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> The North made the first move after all.

The Confederate troops fired first, at Fort Sumter.



The North still made the first move, by occupying the confederate fort and refusing to leave. This is middle school history, no need to hide the facts.


It was not a Confederate fort to begin with. It was a Federal fort, though construction hadn't yet finished on it at the time of that SC tried to secede. I'm not hiding any facts, you just had a bad middle school history teacher.




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