Lincoln Responded to the Fall of Fort Sumter in All

question 18

Multiple Choice

Lincoln responded to the fall of Fort Sumter in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

• A) calling for loyal states to provide volunteers
• B) ordering a naval blockade of southern ports
• C) ordering federal ships close the Mississippi River to navigation
• D) making one last offer to the South to avoid war in exchange for protecting slavery in perpetuity
• E) ordering naval squadrons to cordon off southern ports along the Atlantic coast and Gulf of Mexico

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