What+caused+the+civil+war?+E.G.

There were many causes that led to the Civil War, but one of them stands out as the major cause and the point where war was inevitable. The country was already starting to split but when Lincoln was voted as President that was the last straw for the South. When Lincoln was voted as President the South became very angry. One of the reasons was because he wasn't even on the voting ballot in the South. How could someone win if they weren't even on the ballot? Well it's because the North has more population and therefore could vote Lincoln in as President. The South now realized that they had virtually no say in the government. The North now owned the Senate (because of California), the House of Representatives (because of population), and now the Presidency with Lincoln. The Supreme court was the only thing the South had say in and it was only a matter of time before they lost that. Southerners now felt that the constitution which Thomas Jefferson who was from the South came up with didn't protect them. It stated that if the people felt the government was too ruling that they had the right to change or abolish it. But now they could not do that because they felt that the North felt superior over the South. So what was basically the only option for the South to get any rights that they wanted, Secession. Which they started doing within months of the election of 1860. South Carolina was the first to go and the "Deep South" later followed until the country was split. The North could have just let the South go and done nothing about it, but when the secessions started happening they were going against the federal government.