Lincoln was trying to appeal to Southern voters by picking Andrew Johnson as his running mate. These two men were actually very different politically speaking. Lincoln was a Republican, Andrew Johnson was a Democrat. Lincoln was from the Midwest US, Andrew Johnson was from Tennessee.
Lincoln knew that having a Democratic Vice President who once represented a Confederate state (Tennessee) would allow his presidency to appeal to a wider range of voters.
<span>The Battle of the Marne the Germans and the Allied troops started to build trenches from the North Sea to the Swiss frontier of France. This battle stopped the Germans from going through Belgium to get to France. They started digging the trenches on the Western Front on both sides starting on Sept 15, 1914
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<em>The Emancipation Proclamation.</em>
Explanation:
The Emancipation Proclamation was officially given on January 1, 1863 and sought the end of slavery in the United States by President Abraham Lincoln.
There was a long battle between the Union and the Confederacy with slavery. The Union wanted to abolish slavery, while the Confederate states wanted to keep it, for numerous reasons. Southern states heavily relied on agriculture for wealth, they were not industrialized like the Northern states. The South made money growing cotton, tobacco, and sometimes indigo, this meant that they needed people, in this case slaves, to tend to these crops.
The Emancipation Proclamation did not work everywhere immediately, it took time to free the millions of slaves across the country, but in the end it did work. Lincoln also made sure to time this correctly to make sure he would gain support from the American citizens.
This also lead to the Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, which abolished slavery for good.
I think the correct answer is b
