Lincoln was worried about Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, and Delaware because they were all border states during the civil war. He was worried that they would transform into complete slave states. If they did, the north wouldn’t have much more land and the north would have lost the civil war. He wanted to contain them.
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THREE FACTS ABOUT ERNEST HEMINGWAY:
• During his lifetime, Hemingway survived two plane crashes, skin cancer, pneumonia, a ruptured kidney, and more diseases and injuries.
• Hemingway had wanted to fight in WW1, but was denied due to his poor eyesight.
• He married four times and divorced three times in his 62 years.
THREE FACTS ABOUT F. SCOTT FITZGERALD:
• F. Scott Fitzgerald fell in love with a woman named Zelda (who later broke off the engagement) and they had one child together.
• In the late 1930s, he had a heart attack in a Drug Store.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald had begun writing a novel called The Love of the Last Tycoon, but died when he'd written about half.
THREE FACTS ABOUT T. S. ELIOT:
• Eliot was best known for his poetic masterpieces, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "The Waste Land", "Four Quartets", and more.
• Eliot would only write for 3 hours per day.
• He considered 'Four Quartets' to be his best work.
THREE FACTS ABOUT GERTRUDE STEIN:
• Stein was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collecter.
• Gertrude's family moved to France when she was 3, but she came back to America in 1878.
• She was 72 years old when she'd died.
THREE FACTS ABOUT EZRA POUND:
• Ezra Loomis Pound was born on October 30th, 1885, Idaho, but spent most of his youth in Pennsylvania.
• He graduated from Hamilton College in 1905.
• His imagism was an attempt to make poetry scientifically respectible.
I really hope this helped you!I tried to put this in my own words as best I can. Also, lol, I found some facts that were more 'interesting' than interesting. :D
