By choosing to resupply Fort Sumter, Abraham Lincoln risked

A. abandonment of the fort by Union soldiers.

B. abandonment of the fort by Confederate soldiers.

C. the appearance of giving in to Confederate secession.

D. armed conflict with Southern soldiers.

Lincoln risked D, armed conflict with Southern soldiers.

Answer: D. Armed conflict with Southern soldiers

Explanation: By deciding to resupply Fort Sumter, Lincoln did not in any way risked abandonment of the fort by Confederate soldiers. Neither did it mean that the Union soldiers would abandoned Fort Sumter and leave it to the Confederate soldiers.

Fort Sumter was a fortification that had a military base function in South Carolina. The supply of the fortress meant the presence of Union soldiers in it, and it was the site of the first clash of the Union and Confederate Soldiers, which proved to be the beginning of the Civil War in America.