(A) ** Continue supporting the war effort
(B) Reject the idea of war
(C) Enlist in the army
(D) End the Civil War
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -Answer: A continue supporting the war effort.
Concept note-2: -Lincoln urged his audience to fulfill the mission that Union soldiers had fought and died for: the realization of liberty and equality for all-ideals in our Declaration of Independence.
Concept note-3: -During the American Civil War, President Lincoln noted again and again that his purpose in fighting the South was to save the Union, not to free the slaves.
Concept note-4: -Lincoln’s decision to fight rather than to let the Southern states secede was not based on his feelings towards slavery. Rather, he felt it was his sacred duty as President of the United States to preserve the Union at all costs.
Concept note-5: -Slavery, Lincoln stated, was the reason for the war: One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves. Not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it.