Confederate Batteries Fired on Fort Sumter When They Learned That

question 28

Multiple Choice

Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter when they learned that

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

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