<span>Abraham Lincoln had thought about the process of restoring the Union from the earliest days of the war. His guiding principles were to accomplish the task as rapidly as possible and ignore calls for punishing the South. </span>
<span>b. Ellis Island. is the answer.</span>
He thought that it addressed and solved the key problems in America such as: Direct Taxation, Destruction of the States, the establishment of an aristocracy, Standing Army in Time of Peace, Abolition of Trial by Jury, Lack of a Bill of Rights, and the difference between the states and the federal government.
The french and british both wanted to own the ohio river valley.
