Answer:
<em>b) emphasizing that his only goal was to save the Union.</em>
Explanation:
While Abraham Lincoln is well known for his debates with Stephen Douglas and played an important role in the discussions about slavery he was not an abolitionist. Lincoln was a nationalist that would do anything for the states stay together and avoid a war in the Union. He said in the First Inaugural Address:
" I declare that “I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery where it now exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.” Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this, and many similar declarations, and had never recanted them.".
as an agrarian republic in which states and localities held most of the power
The map below shows us the migratory patterns of the Indo-Europeans, and with their migrations, the spread of the their language as well. As the Indo-Europeans started to migrate from their homeland in the lowlands between the Black and Caspian seas, they were spreading their culture with them. This led to their language seemingly distant regions that do not seem connected. As they were moving in different areas, Europe, India, Iran, Central Asia, their language started to change, so lot of new dialects emerged, and later those dialects gave birth to new languages, though all of those languages kept their basis and remained part of the same linguistic family.
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