<span>Despite his personal opposition to slavery, when President Abraham Lincoln took office in 1861 he insisted that his constitutional duty was to keep the nation together, not to abolish slavery. He conducted the first year of the war with the goal of reuniting the Union, but wartime events, including heavy military losses and the many slaves who escaped behind Union battle lines, forced him to contend with the issue of slavery. He issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862 and the final version on January 1, 1863, fundamentally changing the meaning of the war.</span>
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Assuming that this is referring to the same list of options that was posted before with this question, the correct response would be "secondary source," since this would be analyzing something in the past.
Take off D; the North had won some battles up to that point. Rip off A; the South would never let go of slavery. Take off B, since the Union had some wins already. You can now clearly see where the answer is.
<span>In the Americas, the British and Native Americans had a common enemy prior to the start of the Revolutionary War - the colonists. At that time, the thirteen colonies had declared their independence from the British Crown. As such, Britain moved to take military action against the newly created United States to crush the movement for independence.
At the same time, Native Americans harbored a strong distrust against the Americans due to their ambition to expand into Native lands. They believe that establishing military alliances with the British would help be beneficial in stopping the continued colonization of the Americas. This alliance between the British and the Native Americans gave them confidence that they would be able to quell the uprising by the thirteen colonies and contributed greatly towards war.</span>
A shogunate is most similar to a "military dictatorship" in terms of a relevant modern government, since each leader (Shogun) was a hereditary military dictator in Japan.
