The Correct Answer is A. Southeast.
The states are:
<u>Southeast:</u> Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia (9)
<u>West: </u>Nevada, Utah, Arizona (3)
<u>Northeast: </u>None
<u>Midwest: </u>Missouri and Illinois (2)
Additionally Oklahoma in the Southwest didn't ratify the Amendment.
Let's check the math: That's 15 states in total. 35 did ratify the Amendment. so we have in total 50 States. Correct!
PS. Additionally Idaho, Kentucky, Nebraska, South Dakota and Tennessee originally ratified the Amendment, but later revoked it.
Amid mounting tensions, Federalists accused Republicans of being in league with France against their own country’s government. Writing in June 1798 in the Gazette of the United States, Alexander Hamilton called the Jeffersonians “more Frenchmen than Americans” and claimed that they were prepared “to immolate the independence and welfare of their country at the shrine of France.”
The answer is "Yellow Journalism"
President Lincoln waited for a Union victory before announcing the Emancipation Proclamation because the Union needed to show a victorious country defending the slaves in the Confederacy. If the Union didn't have a victory, the slaves would feel left out by the states that tried to save them.
