Reasons for the Civil War

The Civil War was fought between the Union and the Confederated States of America. The last named seperated from the Union after Lincoln's election for president.They are located in the south-east of North America and reach from México to Virginia. and were full of plantages run by slaves. While in the North slavery was not needed due to the rapidly growing and expanding industrie, the South did not want to abolish the use and sell of slaves of which they made their money. So this and other disagreements heatened and tighten the relationsship between the North and the South until it reached its peak at the bombardment of Fort Sumter, which triggered the Civil War.