<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>
They were persecuted for their faith in god
I believe the answer is A: judge reviews laws and studies the Constitution.
The distance across the Atlantic Ocean
The British government would have to travel across the Atlantic to send any communication, enforce any laws or exchange any resources with the American colonies.
Americans were self-sufficient and could provide anything they needed to support their society because of they didn't depend on Great Britain they were less excepted on their rule.