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What Caused The Civil War? When people think of what caused the Civil War most people would simply say slavery. However, unknown to most, the Civil War was actually caused by a series of compromises and instances that left a sour taste in both the North and South's mouths. The point of which fighting the Civil War became inevitable was in 1860 when Abraham Lincoln was elected to the Presidency of the United States. When the Election of 1860 came about there was already great tension between the North and the South. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was the starting point of this tension, because it caused two other major disruptions, the 1850 Compromise and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. When the ballots where counted the results infuriated the south. Lincoln won with flying colors. Lincoln won 180 of the electoral collage votes, followed by Douglas with only 12. This infuriated the south because despite Lincoln receiving 180 of the electoral collage votes, he did not even win a single county below the Ohio River. Within days of Lincoln's Election South Carolina seceded. Soon fallowed by the other southern states. The succession of the South drew the lines and packed the amo of the war guns. The Election of 1860 split the South and the North so deep it became inevidible.