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The force of events moved very quickly upon the election of Lincoln. South Carolina acted first, calling for a convention to secede from the Union. State by state, conventions were held, and the Confederacy was formed. Within three months of Lincoln's election, seven states had seceded from the Union.
Answer: 1.B
2.C
3. I am not really sure about the 3rd one.
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C.) Great Britain ceded the Oregon Country to the United States to settle a dispute over boundaries.
Explanation:
After the civil war the expansion of the American territory began, in the decade of 1840 the Oregon Treaty was signed whose name is the "Treaty with Great Britain regarding the western limits of the Rocky Mountains" and the border between British and American sections of the "Oregon Territory". This had been occupied by the British and Americans since the Anglo-American convention of 1818 when it was accepted in the common domain of the region.
The treaty was negotiated by James Buchanan, the US Secretary of State and Richard Pakenham, the royal council member of Queen Victoria and special envoy of the queen.
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nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
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C. Presidents have more frequently used military force without congressional declarations of war.
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The framers did not give much attention to the Executive Branch in the Constitutional Convention of 1787. During that time there was a reluctance to concede much power to the federal government, they wanted to give states independence.
Along with the years of the nation’s Constitution, more power was given to the executive branch, President Lincoln, for example, signed an executive order that suspended the write of habeas corpus, President FDR got the Congress to pass a major program that increased the size and scope of Executive Branch agencies and signed the Executive Order 8381 that created the classification of information which allowed the Executive Branch to limit certain information to the public.
George W. Bush also signed the USA Patriot Act into law and gave major authority to the executive branch.
