There were legions of Americans who could not vote, including Native Americans, some immigrants, women and black Americans.
C) European leaders staked out their claims in Africa during the Berlin Conference
The answer is A. They do this as a way of showing party unity.
President Lincoln made the use of force necessary because of his prior military actions that show that he already assumed war and has been prepared for it. The South did not like the coercive policy, diplomacy using threats, that the President had sent. Alexander Stephen that Lincoln's provocative actions will not help to stop the war. Instead, it pushed the South to justify it's use of force when necessary.
In part to unite germany. he hated jews. he was a bad man