Edwin M. Stanton was a politician who served as Secretary of War under the Lincoln administration. He was instrumental in leading the Union to victory. After Lincoln's death, Stanton remained as Secretary of War under Andrew Johnson. This led to conflict, as Stanton opposed the lenient policies of Johnson towards the Confederate states. Johnson tried to remove him, but this brought impeachment proceedings against Johnson from the Radical Republicans.
D. The European population doubled as they benefited the most from the colonization of the Americas. Thousands of Native Americans died from working and of disease. Millions of Africans were sent to the Americas as slaves through slave trade
