D. I believe because it all happened
The assassination of President Lincoln was just one part of a larger plot to decapitate the federal government of the U.S. after the Civil War. Lincoln never lived to enact this policy.
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Hernando De Soto was attracted to the Mississippi river because he played an important role in Francisco Pizarro's conquest of the Inca Empire in Peru, but is best known for leading the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States through Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and most likely Arkansas.