Lincoln's attempts to preserve the Union led him to take questionable actions as president, such as
a. promoting and demoting military commanders without Congressional approval.
b. calling for a blockade and increasing the size of the army after the attack on Fort Sumter.
c. suspending the right to trial by jury.
d. risking the loyalty of the Border States by making the abolition of slavery the Union´s aim at the outset.
e. refusing to implement a draft, or conscription law, during the war.
b
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a. Cleveland b. Harrison c. McKinley d. Roosevelt
Relations between Spanish explorers and Native American women were
A) discouraged by the Catholic clergy. B) rarely successful. C) often resulted in formal marriage. D) always violent.
The first college to accept men and women, black and white, was __________
A) Oberlin B) Mount Holyoke C) Yale D) Dartmouth
18th century Russian expansion into Alaska was mainly driven by:
A) the fur trade. B) the fishing industry. C) Russian agricultural villages. D) gold mining.