Question

50 POINTS!!!
Because Lincoln considered secession illegal, he planned to use all of the following executive powers to readmit the Southern states into the Union EXCEPT: A. the power to suppress insurrections B. the power to grant pardons C. the power to make treaties with other countries D.the power to issue executive orders

Answer 1

Answer: D. The power to issue executive order

Explanation:

President Lincoln issued this executive order primarily to weaken the Confederacy's power to wage war against the Union. Lincoln understood that the president could not constitutionally abolish slavery throughout the United States by issuing an Executive Order.

Similarly, Abraham Lincoln used an executive order to manage a constitutional crisis ... Suspension Act of 1863, officially giving the president the power that Lincoln had assumed.