Answer:
In United States election, before an election can be successfully declared won and finished, one of the candidate needs to win the higher number of the electoral votes irrespective of whether he or she won the popular votes.
Lincoln winning the northern states only guarantees that he would secure the majority is as a result of those northern states having the majority of the electoral college votes ascribed to them irrespective of the size and population of those states.
<em> Hence the reason Lincoln won with a margin 212–21 in the electoral college votes.</em>
Explanation:
Taft was supposed to be a progressive but soon after taking office he realized that he couldn't please the progressives and the conservatives so he chose to do what he thought was best for the country.
He tried to fix the antitrust laws and not the labor laws in the US.
So the country doesn't kill itself ......
Answer:
He wanted to buy his children
Explanation:
The slave that worked as a carpenter was trying to persuade his mistress to sell him his children so he can have them.
