What event was an immediate cause of the civil war

Political Parties Splinter

The Election of 1860

Southern States Secede

Efforts at Compromise Fail

First Shots at Fort Sumter

Lincoln Calls out the Militia

The war between the United States and the Confederate States began on April 12, 1861 at Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina. The immediate cause was Constitutional principle: the U. S. government refused to recognize the southern states' right to secede from the Union, and the C. S.