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What do you think the following quote by Abraham Lincoln means? "A House divided against itself cannot stand," Abraham Lincoln, 1858.

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Abraham Lincoln was saying that the US could not stand if half of the states allowed slavery and the other half did not. The US would fall apart. It either would be accepted or not.

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