(A) President Lincoln resupplied the federal troops in time to avoid an armed conflict.
(B) ** In an effort to take the fort, the Confederates fired the first shot of the Civil War.
(C) In an effort to hold the fort, the Union Army fired the first shots of the war.
(D) The Union managed to withstand the bombardment of the Confederates and keep the Fort in Union hands.
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Concept note-1: -At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered. Traditionally, this event has been used to mark the beginning of the Civil War.
Concept note-2: -Charleston Harbor, SC | Apr 12-14, 1861. The attack on Fort Sumter marked the official beginning of the American Civil War-a war that lasted four years, cost the lives of more than 620, 000 Americans, and freed 3.9 million enslaved people from bondage.
Concept note-3: -The attack on Fort Sumter prompted four more states to join the Confederacy. With Virginia’s secession, Richmond was named the Confederate capitol.
Concept note-4: -In the 1860s, the United States Army captured an estimated 10, 000 Navajos and forced them to walk 450 miles from their homeland in the Four Corners area to the Bosque Redondo Reservation. The event is known as “The Long Walk.” More than 8500 Navajos and nearly 500 Mescalero Apaches were taken prisoner at Fort Sumner.