<span>Social darwinism and laissez faire economics were most closely associated with the interests of big business owners. Big business owners had the most to gain from embracing such tactics. With social darwinism and laissez faire these business owners could prevent the government from trying to regulate them and they could take out rival companies and potentially monopolize whichever market they operated in.</span>
Lincoln let the Confederate leaders know about his plan to resupply Fort Sumter so that they would not demand fire on the ships carrying supplies.
Grandfather clauses were designed to prevent poor and illiterate African Americans from voting.
This term was coined in the 19th century when new rules for literacy tests, poll taxes and requirements for voting were established.
Some white people who did not fulfill the requirements were still allowed to vote because their ancestors ( grandfathers ) had the right to vote. This was a way to make voting possible for white Americans, and to make voting almost impossible for black people.
Today, this term applies to a provision in which an old rule continues to apply to some existing situation while a new rule will apply to future cases.
Answer:
Option A
Explanation:
Elizabeth Van Lew was an American abolitionist and the daughter of a wealthy family in Richmond that operated a spy ring for the Union Army during the Civil War. Elizabeth creates rapport with both capture prisoners and guards by been friendly, providing food and medicine to them and they gave her information on Confederate troops and movements unknowingly, which she was able to gather valuable information about Confederate strategy from both prisoners and guards, which was then passed on to Union commanders. She likewise helped union soldiers, smuggled out letters for them. She also runs her own network of spies. In late 1863, Union General Benjamin Butler recruited Van Lew as a spy because of her strong abolitionist sympathies; she soon became the head of an entire espionage network based in Richmond
<em>Elizabeth Van Lew gathered information from wounded Union soldiers before she was recruited as a spy by General Benjamin Butler because of her strong abolitionist sympathies</em>
