Author Question: Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter when it was learned that a. Lincoln had ordered the ... (Read 86 times)

D2AR0N · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

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.

Question 2

New England colonists were outraged when British diplomats returned ____ to France in 1748.

a. Hudson Bay
b. Acadia
c. Louisbourg
d. Newfoundland
e. Nova Scotia