While it was true that western lands were somewhat more fertile than the now-depleted lands of the East, many of the pioneers were attracted to the frontier in order to speculate in land, i.e. to purchase large quantities of cheap government land and to sell it at a profit to later comers
Answer:
The western block was made up of:
1. Great Britain
2. United States
3. France
4. Belgium
5. Denmark
6. Norway
7. Netherlands
8. West- Germany
9. Turkey
10. Italy
11. Luxembourg
12. Iceland
Explanation:
During the Cold War, the world was distributed into 3 blocks, the Western block, the Eastern block and neutral countries.
The Western Block consisted of mostly capitalist countries, who were lead by the United States and Great Britain and formed the NATO.
The Eastern Block was aligned with the Soviet-Union and consisted of countries like Poland and Ukraine.
Lincoln thought of making a colony for freed blacks in Central or South America however the idea was argued by American Negroes and some leaders themselves, hence Lincoln abandoned the idea. He was faced with a great dilemma that he felt the Constitution did not give him or the Congress authority to infringe on a state's right to allow slavery itself. It would also mean that citizenship of a slave would mean to allow blacks to serve in the Civil War as soldiers but he was reluctant to do so. Thus the idea of emancipation occurred. The Emancipation Proclamation would be issued reluctantly because Lincoln knew that this proclamation would be perceived as a humanitarian gesture, resulting in the border states seceding and there will be more serious racial backlash in the northern cities, plus reducing the chances of receiving financial support from England or France to the south.
He acused other senators of forcing Kansas to be a slave state, and also he also made such personal accusations as that the other senators saw themselves as similar to medieval knights, or making fun of the other senators in other ways.
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