What were the 2 reasons why Europeans came to America?

The main reason before discovering America was to find another faster way to India but after discovering this was a new land that had bountiful resources they wanted to take the land so the short answer is to colonize and to profit off of natural resources

Not sure if it’s within 12 months, but you could talk about the spreading of alt-right hate speech and whether that is covered by the right of freedom of speech? or, cover how during the midterm elections in some states many native american populations were declined to vote because they didn’t have the proper id, despite being citizens? also, the death of that journalist last month, who spoke freely and reported about the saudi government and how corrupted it is and was killed because of that (lack of free press/speech). just some ideas for this prompt, i hope at least one of them : )

He issued the emancipation proclamation. it started changing slavery, and eventually lead to the freedom of slaves.