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Why did President Abraham Lincoln give $2 million to three private citizens? A. to start his presidential reelection campaign B. to recruit and outfit soldiers for the coming war C. to fund new housing
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Why did President Abraham Lincoln give $2 million to three private citizens?

A. to start his presidential reelection campaign
B. to recruit and outfit soldiers for the coming war
C. to fund new housing for the growing population of immigrants
D. to fund new prisons needed for political prisoners

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Because Lincoln believed that the federal bureaucracy, in these early days of the war, was still infested with Confederate sympathizers, he ordered Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase to advance $2 million to three private citizens in New York to purchase arms and vessels.

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B. TO RECRUIT AND OUTFIT SOLDIERS FOR THE COMING WAR

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