How Civil War started?

[165318]

Anyone can explain?

Fort Sumter. Honest Abe did not want a 'Mr Lincoln's War' so he made sure that the Confederacy attacked first. Genius.

[gettysburg man]

the main part of what started the civil war was the secession of 1860. first came south carolina then six more. but before that, when the southern states were on the virge of secession president buchannan declared '' I am the last president of the United States!'' now april 1861, confederate cannons opened fire on fort sumter located in charleston harbor. the bombardment of fort sumter was the first battle of the civil war.

[leefan]

The civil war started after the south had enough of taxation and infringement on their states rights. After SC seceeded, the Confederacy demanded the federal gov. get off their property at Ft. Sumter, which they maintained now belonged to them because it was in their state and no longer federal property. The Union remained in the fort, and the Confederacy thus fired the first shot of the war. No one was killed in this barrage of cannon fire, with the exception of one individual (if memory serves), who died from a wound inflicted by a misfire of his own cannon. But it's generally considered a bloodless battle.