*What+Caused+the+Civil+War+(LIZ)?

Many thing attributed to the cause of the civil war. When did war become inevitable though? The civil war became unavoidable with the Firing on Fort Sumter in April of 1861. This left the new president with the alarming question of what to do with the broken states of America First, though, the question needs to be answered, was it actually President Lincoln's fault for this incident? He was the one to send ships to the fort on Confederate soil. The answer to that is absolutely not. He did the smartest thing possible in this situation. He gave the seceded states the choice to compromise or fight. His goal in office was not to abolish slavery but to keep the union existing as a whole. he states this in a letter." **I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was.' " ** ( --August 22, 1862, to Horace Greenly )When he sent the ship to resupply the Federal Fort in South Carolina he gave full warning to the South Carolinian government. In a sense, he put the ball into the other player's court and waited for them to make their move. Which was, indeed, a brilliant move. South Carolina decided that war was the only way. Their move made fighting inescapable. It was treason to secede from the union and declare independence but to take it one step further and open fire on the federal government was inexcusable. This was the point of no return in the Civil war. There was no compromise that could save the union now from tearing itself apart. From the Southerner's point of view, the North, with sending the supply ships, had violated their state and committed an act of war. The North's perspective, however, was a complete one- eighty. They had violated no such rules and committed nothing of the sort. The South, to be specific South Carolina,

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