Answer: The event that triggered war came at Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay on April 12, 1861. Claiming this United States fort as their own, the Confederate army on that day opened fire on the federal garrison and forced it to lower the American flag in surrender.
Webster supported the new Fugitive Salve Law, hoping that it would calm sectional tensions between North and South.
Jeffersonian Democracy term <span>in American government in the first decade of the nineteenth century.</span>
1. it stopped the spread of slavery north of the Ohio river