"<span>D. He would allow slavery to continue in the South to prevent a war" is the correct answer, since Lincoln's main objective was preserving the Union. He greatly disliked slavery, however.</span>
The Confiscation Acts themselves did not do much but laid the legal and social groundwork for the Emancipation Proclamation which would come in the following year.
Lincoln was able to capitalize on the reaction to the Confiscation Act to feel comfortable enough to push forward the Emancipation Proclamation, which applied to all slaves in rebel held territory.
Because it offers the historian an objective snapshot of the public sentiment of the time, which the cartoonist (should be) distilling for their readers, according to their feelings, for mass appeal. I say objective as it is usually very easy to decipher their subjective viewpoint according to the publication. The value of this is that it is tapping into how the masses 'feel' rather than how subjective facts can be built to form historical opinion. It becomes especially valuable prior to this century, when public sentiment is harder to garner as we were less technologically advanced.
Creación de nuevos estados en América. españa pierde la mayor parte de su imperio de ultramar en América. fragmentación de la hispanidad como unidad política, militar, social, cultural y religiosa.
It showed that Europeans were unwilling to allow further Islamic expansion into Europe. In what way was the Islamic expansion into India similar to the way Islam expanded in other areas?
