The way that the 1862 Homestead Act helped pull immigrants to the United States is by providing immigrants with inexpensive farmland.
Many immigrants were drawn to the fact that they could own their own farmland, and not have to pay a lot for them. This is why a lot of these immigrants moved to the US.
Daniel Ellsberg is most famous as the military analyst who leaked "The Pentagon Papers" to the American press in 1971, revealing top secret information about US planning and decision-making in regard to the Vietnam War.
In regard to the question about October of 1969, the Nixon administration was at a point where they wanted to break the stalemate in Vietnam. According to Ellsberg, Nixon believed he could end the war by threatening the use of nuclear weapons against Vietnam, and had actually identified targets for nuclear strikes. Again, according to Ellsberg, the huge Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam demonstration, which included teach-ins and demonstrations all across the United States, convinced President Nixon not to increase the war in that way -- not to threaten nuclear war.
I think D: Northern legislatures had already passed the Emancipation Proclamation is your best bet. Lincoln didn't have the right to give the executive order in the states that had congressional representation which was strictly the Union . However, in the rebellious states (the south) he was able to impose his authority over them because they were technically looked at as having committed treason against the Union. Does that make sense?
Hopefully this helped and good luck.
The respect or admiration that one gets for been successful is called PRESTIGE.
Prestige is a product of hard work and determination and can only be achieved by those who have make up their minds to succeed in what they do.
This is when the Abbasid Empire starts to fall apart; heavy taxation, agrarian disorder, societal mishap, and revolts all play the Abbasid Empire into the hands of the Buyids, a Persian group that captures Baghdad, the capital, and controls the Abbasid for a few years. ... The invasion of the Mongols, who sack Baghdad.
