SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
LINCOLNS ELECTION
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The Civil War
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The slave trade on the Middle Passage
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The American Revolution
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The French and Indian War
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Detailed explanation-1: -As Lincoln began his speech under the newly-completed dome of the United States Capitol, rain and storm clouds gave way to sun. “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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Lincoln’s message in his Gettysburg Address was that the living can honor the wartime dead not with a speech, but rather by continuing to fight for the ideas they gave their lives for. Was this answer helpful?
Detailed explanation-3: -Judge Whitney wrote: “In religion, Lincoln was in essence a mystic, and all his adoration was in accordance with the tenets of that order, ” a judgment which agrees with that of Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Southern Confederacy: “With Lincoln, the Union rose to the sublimity of a religious Mysticism."