With the Emancipation Proclamation (1863), the President publicly endorsed the abolition of slavery in southern states. Lincoln's decision to support slavery's end in the south was mostly an economic decision, hoping to strike a serious blow to their ability to support agricultural endeavors. Lincoln did not ask the Border States to give up slavery.
<span> The major factor was that Zimmerman Telegram and Germany's announced intention to resume unrestricted submarine warfare. </span>
Answer: The rivers were their main way of traveling. The French wanted to control the American Indian trade in the Ohio River Valley and keep the Pennsylvania traders out. They also needed the American Indians living there to be their allies.
His motives where that he would died and than he would be free from Cassius.
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