Lincoln responded to the fall of Fort Sumter in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

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Lincoln did not make one last offer to the South to avoid war in exchange for protecting slavery in perpetuity. He had already made it clear that the Union would not compromise on the issue of slavery, and the South had chosen to secede rather than accept the Republican Party's platform of limiting its expansion. Instead, Lincoln's response to the fall of Fort Sumter included calling for loyal states to provide volunteers, ordering a naval blockade of southern ports, ordering federal ships to close the Mississippi River to navigation, and ordering naval squadrons to cordon off southern ports along the Atlantic coast and Gulf of Mexico.

Lincoln Responded to the Fall of Fort Sumter in All