[DoodleDawg]

The South exported their cotton to England, and wanted British manufactured goods in return.

Like what?

Fort Sumter was fired upon, because its main purpose was enforcement of tariff collection on ships entering Charleston harbor.

Fort Sumter was fired on because it was federal property manned by federal troops who refused to allow the Confederacy to just seize it. It was not a there to enforce tariff collections. That was done at the Customs House on Bay Street.

[DiogenesLamp]

Fort Sumter was fired on because it was federal property manned by federal troops who refused to allow the Confederacy to just seize it.

Wrong. It was occupied by workers and craftsmen who were in the process of building it when it was *SEIZED* by Federal forces in an act of naked aggression after the Confederates had been told for months that the fort would be turned over to them.

This was after the cannons in fort Moultrie had been burned without warning.

First hostilities of the war were instituted by Anderson, not the confederates.