Not sure but hope what I know help a little...Slavery was “an unqualified evil to the negro, the white man, and the State,” said Abraham Lincoln in the 1850s. Yet in his first inaugural address, Lincoln declared that he had “no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with slavery in the States where it exists.” He reiterated this pledge in his first message to Congress on July 4, 1861, when the Civil War was three months old.<span>Did You Know?When it took effect in January 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation freed 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million slaves.</span>
What explains this apparent inconsistency in Lincoln’s statements? And how did he get from his pledge not to interfere with slavery to a decision a year later to issue an emancipation proclamation? The answers lie in the Constitution and in the course of the Civil War. As an individual, Lincoln hated slavery. As a Republican, he wished to exclude it from the territories as the first step to putting the institution “in the course of ultimate extinction.”
Answer:
Due to the fact President Polk faced very little opposition, his lack of accountability made him feel more open to do as he wanted.
Explanation:
He had a simple reason to engage in the Mexican American war, that being he didn't want Mexicans to shed blood on their own land. I hope this helps!
Samuel Adams and the radical artisans and workers of Boston proposed what might be at stake in this problem between elites and ordinary citizens when they established a solemn league and covenant to lead a third intercolonial boycott of British goods. On June 8 1774, Adam sent a letter to Massachussetts town in which stated that all adults to stop the all commercial connection which Britain.
