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Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina.
Total Free Population27,489,561Total Slave Population3,953,760Grand Total31,443,321
the right to secede from the union
A bunch of Southern states declared that they were not part of the USA anymore. Then one of them attacked a US Army base at Fort Sumter (which quickly surrendered), officially beginning the war.
At the beginning of World War I, the US assumed an isolationist policy which basically means that we refused to get involved. While remaining isolationist, the US tried to get the other countries involved to declare peace.