How is the election of abraham lincoln as u. s president in 1860 connected to the confederate attack on fort sumter on april 12-13, 1861?

Before Lincoln’s election, the United States was very tense. The soon-to-be Confederates were in support of slavery, (as it was helpful on their large plantations) while the future union was against it. In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln ran to represent the northern states, while two other candidates represented the southern ones. Because the South had two candidates running,  The southern votes were split between them, while Lincoln got all of the northern votes, leading him to win the election.  This made the south very upset, as they knew that Lincoln was against slavery. A year later,  during the attack of fort Sumter, the Confederates fight against Lincolns ideas to protect their slavery. That was the whole purpose of the Civil War. The debate over slavery. In summary, the attack on Fort Sumter, a union fort, was due to the Confederate’s wanting for slavery and the Union’s opposition to it.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion