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The point of no return was when fort Sumter was attacked by the CSA or the Confederate Sates of America. When that event took place it was an immediate attack on American soil and on a federal fort so that was a direct attack on the federal government. At this point the federal government couldn't turn its back or ignore the situation any longer. Secession is not a direct attack on the federal government but a move against its authority and to see how far they will go to keep the federal government respectable. So that if the U.S did nothing we would of been seen as a coward and didn't want to go into war. But we should of gone to war because of the Monroe doctrine stated that any foreign nation that makes a country in our hemisphere we said that was an act of war. But secession caused no fighting and no bloodshed so we saw no hurt in what they were doing. We were mad and angry at them but we did not go and fight them. Sumner caning could have been seen as a violent attack on a federal people. But they saw it as a personal attack, not a direct attack. The Kansas-Nebraska act couldn't of been seen as an act of war because that happened in a territory. Soldiers were not killed only settlers and angry southerners. If America was ready to go t war for slavery, it already started in bleeding Kansas. Bleeding Kansas was being fought over the expansion of slavery. the north was fighting to recede slavery in Kansas the south was trying to expand it. All the other reasons could have been major stepping stones to war or could have been the stone of war but none of them were. We were not ready to go to war over slavery. we were ready to go to war for secession. President Lincolns goal was to preserve the union in the north and south and was not willing to let anything compromise it. He said if he could bring the north and south together again with out abolishing slavery he said he would do that. Because stuck to his goal and was willing to do anything for it. Even go to war over secession for it.