When lincoln finally sent supplies to fort sumter, he used
a) heavily armed ships.
b) troops from nearby forts.
c) troops from distant forts.
d) unarmed ships.

D. unarmed ships.

Just took the test.

d) unarmed ships.

Explanation:

Fort summer was a fort that was occupied by 68 federal troops of the union once SOuth Caroline seced from it, the people from the union believed Fort Summer belonged to the union, and the people from South Carolina believed it belonged to the new confederation. When Lincoln took office Fort summer was running out of provisions and the pressure on him to re-unite the states was big, an attack or sending more troops on Fort Summer would be seeing as a direct attack from the Union, and states that remained with the Union could go to the secessionist side, like Virginia and North Carolina,  since the union didn´t want to be the violent one, Lincoln decided to send unarmed ships to re-supply fort summer, and because they couldn´t allow that to happen the recessionst attacked fort summer, thus initiating the civil war.

pretty sure it is c

explanation:

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