View Passage I Disable Passage Scrolling --Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln
Read the passage on the left to answer the following questions:
4) What is a major theme of this speech?
A) Slavery is wrong
B) Lincoln has been re-elected.
Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the
oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an
extended address than there was at the first. Then a
statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued,
seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four
years, during which public declarations have been constantly
called forth on every point and phase of the great contest
which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies
of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The
progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is
as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust,
reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high
hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
The future of our nation is bright.
D) God is in control of man's life, not man
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5) What significant theme in American literature is suggested by this
speech?
Religion is a necessary and effective alternative to
A)
war
2 On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all
thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war.
All dreaded it-all sought to avert it. While the inaugural
address was being delivered from this place, devoted
altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent
agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war-
seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by
B)
War is the only way to solve problems that arise
within a young country
Slavery must be localized in the South and not
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