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The American Civil War formally began at Fort Sumter (in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina) for several connected reasons. First, it was at Fort Sumter that the first significant shots were fired by Confederate troops in explicit defiance of the Union's attempt to keep the base supplied. Second, the subsequent occupation of the fort indicated to all observers that the South's attempted secession from the Union was not going to be resolved through diplomacy or any other peaceful negotiations: the Union would be divided or preserved only by force of arms.

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