The first shots were fired by the Confederates, who were not wanting a war, but who were asserting their self-proclaimed rights over an island in Charleston harbour that was still occupied by US troops. (The Confederate commander was General P.G.T. Beauregard.)
Another answer might be to identify the individual whose actions divided the two sections so radically that war became inevitable.
This could be Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose best-selling book 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' recruited many Northerners to the cause of Abolitionism, and generaly heated-up the debate.
Another could be John C. Calhoun, although long dead. He was the South Carolinian who encouraged the South to defy Federal Laws and withhold the high taxes on cotton.
the shooting at fort Sumter started the civil war and the confedarate fired at the union
it was started after the civil war
Civil War
it started the civil war, it was the battle that started the civil war, however u want to put it
The state of South Carolina was the first state to leave the United States prior to the Civil War. They started the Confederacy.
The one in the US started in 1861
Around the civil war
He Started the American Civil War and Ended Slavery.
The Confederate States of America.
In America it started right after the end of the Civil war in the South.
There are both very important to America. But The Revolutionary I think is a little more important because it started America, but the civil war almost ended America and did for a few years but the Revolutionary War is more important
America's Civil War was created in 1988.
One of the conflicts that started the civil war was slavery
Who started the civil war?
The United States divided and eventually started the Civil War. During the Civil War, more Americans died than in any other war.
the beginning civil war battle place date and who started it
probably the USA