<span>Both Abraham Lincoln, who was a key figure in creating political legislation in support of Black rights in the Reconstruction, and Andrew Johnson, who pardoned large numbers of slaveowners, were dead by 1877 - Lincoln in 1865 and Johnson in 1875.</span>
Scarcity of resources. The European countries and Japan didn't have all the resources they needed in order to keep up industrialization and a few other reasons. They resorted to taking over other lands in order the "cheaply" obtain the resources.
The one that is not part of the middle colonies is C. Massachusetts
well...they were still called automobiles, however big industries like Ford Cars were around back then.
Historians generally recognize three motives for European exploration and colonization in the New World: God, gold, and glory.
