Respuesta :
Financial
Since the freed slaves would hinder the former slave states economy.
Since the freed slaves would hinder the former slave states economy.
The correct answer is A) financial.
The meaning of the word in bold is "financial."
The context of the word is when President Lincoln says: "That it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all slave States..."
He is referring to the financial aid (money aid) he was going to recommend the members of Congress to the free acceptance or rejection of all slave States. These words were expressed by President Abraham Lincoln in the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation of September 22, 1862.