Answer:
(1) He knew that that Emancipation Proclamation was on shaky legal grounds once the war was over. (2) He knew the great strength of the Slave Power and its allies in the North; he didn’t know if promises of emancipation would be honored by governments that came after he left office unless slavery was abolished by the Constitution. (3) While he had appointed Republican judges to the Supreme Court, including the abolitionist Salmon P. Chase as the Chief Justice, he knew that courts can come up with unexpected decisions (for example a determination that the Emancipation Proclamation applied only to those who had crossed Union lines during the war or that it didn’t apply to children of the former slaves); (4) the nation needed to get beyond the issue of slavery before it could progress or as the Lincoln character in the movie said,
. . . I can’t accomplish a thing of any human meaning or worth until we cure ourselves of slavery and end this pestilential war, and whether any of you or anyone else knows it, I know I need this! This amendment is that cure! We’re stepped out upon the world’s stage now, now, with the fate of human dignity in our hands! Blood’s been spilt to afford us this moment!
Answer:
was the Ottoman Empire practice of forcibly recruiting soldiers and bureaucrats from among the children of their Balkan Christian subjects
Explanation:
They got their names after the ancient Greek gods and goddesses.
Answer: Ability to roll the tongue IS NOT heritable.
Explanation:
This particular point is addressed in Adam Rutherford's book "A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived". (I'm going from memory here so someone can correct me if I've got some details wrong): It was thought for a long time that tongue rolling WAS a heritable trait, but studies of identical twins showed that sometimes one twin can do it, while the other can't, which pretty much puts paid to that hypothesis. Apparently even the guy who first posited (or popularised?) the idea that it was heritable, is now embarrassed when he is told that some science classes still teach that it IS heritable.
As for the other 3 - no idea.
