Please do not copy word for word, you WILL need to rephrase everything I say in your OWN WORDS.
The executive branch and the legislative branch are two complete different things, and both have different jobs. The executive branch enforces the laws, and legislative creates the laws. It's a question to be reckoned with-- Who was going to enforce laws between the north and south? The executive branch. Of course, the legislator is the reason it passed, but they cannot enforce any laws, they cannot hold trials, they only lead it up into the Judicial branch. To put this bluntly, someone needed to enforce it.
I could not be entirely correct, as I'm going based off what I know of the reconstructive plans, and the government branches. If you care to knowledge me more on what the reconstruction plans, I could possibly change it up and put it towards a more accurate response.
A) To prevent loss of jobs and livelihoods
C) To encourage the growth of new industries
E) To retaliate against unfair trade practices
Impeding - to delay or prevent by obstructing it/them.
so your answer is B. Obstructing; slowing down.
B. Arguments in favor of slavery are senseless.
Lincoln demonstrates int eh passage that every argument for the existence of slavery as it stood in the US could be easily countered or reversed. This shows that the arguments for slavery were weak and "senseless".
Lincoln belong to the Free-Soil Party before the Republican Party was created. Free-Soilers did not want slavery to extend any further than it had already existed in the 1850's. Essentially they didn't want it to go into the new territories. They believed that slavery was a dying institution and if not allowed to grow it would smother itself out. As Lincoln became president, his views began to include more of a moral stance suggesting enslaving another person was wrong.
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