The Confederacy? The interest seems to be the act of slavery and the war Lincoln is talking about must be the Civil War, which was taking place while Lincoln was addressing his second inaugural. Lincoln was reasoning that the Confederacy was fighting to keep slavery, which is the interest the "insurgents" have. Lincoln also did not want slavery to continue to spread, but he was fine with having slavery, "restrict the territorial enlargement if [slavery]".
plateaus (which dominate the landscape)
huge mountains.
long rivers.
large lakes.
massive deserts.
deep valleys.
dense rainforests.
expansive grasslands.
One of the main ways in which economic opportunity divided urban and rural dwellers is that those who could afford to live in the suburbs usually chose to do so, while low-income people who had to work lesser-paying jobs were usually confined to the cities.
:<span> </span><span>We're far away from Europe, so we were able to avoid them, mostly, for a long time.</span>
In 1887, Congress established a commission to regulate the railroads by passing "The Interstate Commerce Act", which was mainly intended to keep railroad companies from becoming monopolies.
