Why did Jefferson Davis find it necessary to attack Fort Sumter?
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Answer:
Explanation:
Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America. He found it necessary to attack Fort Sumter because Lincoln was only transporting food to the Northern army at the fort.
President Jefferson Davis was advised by Confederate Secretary of State Robert Toombs to not attack Fort Sumter.
Davis and the Confederate cabinet were warned that an attack on the fort at that time was "suicide".
‘President Jefferson Davis’ wanted to attack Fort Sumter since it is a part of ‘South Carolina’. He wanted to assert their federal sovereignty over the place.
EXPLANATION:
US President Lincoln did not want a conflict regarding the Fort Sumter. Therefore he informed ‘Jefferson Davis’ that he was sent only supplies and not ‘ammunition or weapons’ to the Fort Sumter.
‘President Jefferson Davis’ took this initiative of Lincoln as an act of ‘aggression’. He sent ‘officers to the fort’ to ask the ‘union army to surrender the fort’.