<span>Despite his personal opposition to slavery, when President Abraham Lincoln took office in 1861 he insisted that his constitutional duty was to keep the nation together, not to abolish slavery. He conducted the first year of the war with the goal of reuniting the Union, but wartime events, including heavy military losses and the many slaves who escaped behind Union battle lines, forced him to contend with the issue of slavery. He issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862 and the final version on January 1, 1863, fundamentally changing the meaning of the war.</span>
The correct answer for this question is C: the first African American in Congress.
The open door policy was designed to open Japan to American trade and influence (The US was hungry for an imperial puppet).
Answer:
O The city's artisans made and traded unique pottery.
Explanation:
The kingdom of Kerma grew wealthy from agriculture and the mining of gold. Trade (gold, precious stones, ivory, animal hide, ebony, cattle) also contributed to the city's wealth, due to its location in the centre of a fertile basin and at the crossroads of desert routes linking Egypt, the Red Sea and the heart of Africa.
They traded.
And the Indians shared their land with them.
