On April 12, 1862 southern troops fired at Fort Sumter, an U.S. military post in Charleston, South Carolina. Those shot started one of Americas most remembered wars. The Civil war, a war fought between Americans in the north and Americans in the south, lasted nearly 4 years, ending on April 9, 1865. There are many reasons for the Civil War, but after researching I have found that three main causes were sectionalism, slavery and tariffs. People of America became loyal to the states they lived in and the area around them, which is how sectionalism came about. Sectionalism caused people of the north and south to industrialize differently and differ in opinions and way of life. Northerners did not want slavery opposed to the southerners that did. Northerners found no harm in tariffs, on the other hand southerners did.…
