What Caused the Civil War?

The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states. The event that triggered war came at Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay on April 12, 1861.

The civil war started because the south wanted to become independent from the U.S. the wanted to become independent because the north didn’t agree with slavery.