Confederate Batteries Fired on Fort Sumter When It Was Learned

question 30

Multiple Choice

Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter when it was learned that  

• A) Lincoln had ordered the fort reinforced with federal troops.
• B) Lincoln had ordered supplies sent to the fort.
• C) the fort's commander was planning to evacuate his troops secretly from the fort.
• D) Lincoln had called for seventy-five thousand militia troops to form a voluntary Union army.
• E) southern support for secession was weakening.

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