Causes of the Civil War
While South Carolina''s preemptive strike on Fort Sumter and Lincoln''s subsequent call to arms started the Civil War, South Carolina''s secession and Lincoln''s military actions were simply the last in a chain of events stretching as far back as the early 1750s. Increasing moral conflicts and political debates over slavery--exacerbated by the inequities inherent between an established agricult...
While South Carolina''s preemptive strike on Fort Sumter and Lincoln''s subsequent call to arms started the Civil War, South Carolina''s secession and Lincoln''s military actions were simply the last in a chain of events stretching as far back as the early 1750s. Increasing moral conflicts and political debates over slavery--exacerbated by the inequities inherent between an established agricult...
