3. Which statement best describes the relationship between the southern secession and the Battle of Fort Sumter?
A. While the Battle of Fort Sumter signaled that conflict was unavoidable, it was southern secession that truly started the war.
B. While the southern secession signaled that conflict was unavoidable, it was the Battle of Fort Sumter that truly started the war.
C. It is unknown when the Civil War technically started, as fighting occurred in Kansas all the way back in 1857 over states' rights to enforce slavery.
D. If federal troops had not fled to Fort Sumter just after South Carolina seceded, then none of the other 10 southern states would have seceded
