How did Abraham Lincoln stand up for someone else / how is he an upstander?

Rejecting the South's defense of slavery as “a positive good” and the North's assumption that they bore no responsibility for the peculiar institution, Lincoln used his Second Inaugural Address to propose a common public memory of both the war and American slavery as the basis for restoring national unity.Feb 1, 200

c. bounced back and forth from worthless to worth a lot and back to worthless

not sure but thinking i'ts cause the government was broke. not sure