Increased the size of the army without congressional authorization.
Arrested and jailed anti-Unionists without giving a reason.
Censored some anti-Union newspapers and had some editors and publishers arrested.
he did not want slavery to expand but he was okay for it to remain in the states that it was legal.
Expand his dictatorship
At the beginning - jailing Southern sympathisers in Maryland without trial. At the midpoint - issuing the Emancipation Declaration, announcing freedom for slaves in states he did not control.
Conservatism
the president
to act quickly when the country was in trouble
to expand slavery
Lincoln was super cool. so he said "you shall expand!" and that's how it happened! (:
chooode
To expand the power of state governments
Briefly, anybody who is in favour of the policies to expand the territory of the land/state he/she belongs to is a pro-expansionist person....
In the US presidential election of 1848, Zachary Taylor of the Whig Party won the election. Even though he was a slave owner himself, he did not want to expand the practice further into the West.