Question

Why did the Confederacy want to control Fort Sumter?
A. Fort Sumter was located in a Union state and controlling it would make it easier to hold off Union troops.
B. Fort Sumter was located within the Confederacy, and it protected important shipping lanes and commercial areas.
C.Fort Sumter was located on the border of a Union state and a Confederate state, which gave it a high strategic value.
D. Fort Sumter was located within the Confederacy, and the Union wanted to use it to store weapons and other supplies.

Answer 1

Answer:

Fort sumtor was located in a Union state and controlling it would make it easier to hold off Union troops.

Answer 2

Answer:

A. Fort Sumter was located in a Union state and controlling it would make it easier to hold off Union troops.

Step-by-step explanation:

• The Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12–14, 1861), the first battle of the American Civil War, took place near the entrance to Charleston's harbour.
• Controlling Fort Sumter, which was located in a Union state, would make it easier to hold off Union forces.
• Fort Sumter had no strategic significance to the North because it was unfinished and its guns faced the sea rather than Confederate shore batteries, but it had great symbolic value.
• The new president was confronted with a difficult dilemma. Seven slave states had seceded from the Union, but eight remained.
• Any attempt at compulsion would force all of these states, with the exception of Delaware (which was effectively a Northern state), into the Confederacy's arms.

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