Can someone break down the first section for me of wrights conception?

Ineedd ! the senate hoped to learn from the watergate tapes

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.

The passage of alien and sedition acts led directly to what?