The United States took a larger role in world affairs through the projection of its military and economic power. It did so in order to become a more important country. By the late 1800s, the United States was big enough and strong enough to want to play a greater role in international affairs.
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Lincoln's blueprint for Reconstruction included the Ten-Percent Plan,which specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters (from the voter rolls for the election of 1860) swore an oath of allegiance to the Union. On December 8, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln offers his conciliatory plan for reunification of theUnited States with his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. By this point in the Civil War, it was clear that Lincoln needed to make some preliminary plans for postwar reconstruction.
One of them is D) Caracas
The transcontinental railroad. Because of it, goods were able to be exchanged between the west and east and Chinese immigrants mainly worked on it.