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End of Semester Test: Texas English IIB
Select the correct text in the passage.
Which detail best supports the writer's idea that "statesmanship is not an abstract skill, but a contextual one"?
adapted from Lincoln the Great
by Wilfred W. McClay
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Which brings us to the question of Lincoln's halfway measures, whose fuller context we need to remember. He rose to pro
who was antislavery but also anti-abolitionist. The strategy he preferred would have contained the spread of slavery, then
opposed to overturning the institution in one grand liberatory gesture. Such a position perhaps seems incoherent now, ar
failed in the end, since the South concluded that it could not trust President Lincoln, who received not a single electoral vo
protect its "peculiar institution." But it was a position predicated on Lincoln's belief that the maintenance of the Union was
goods.
We find it harder to swallow Lincoln's frank disbelief in racial equality and his support for African colonization schemes. Th
common even mildly progressive, in his day does not count for much with us. But what should count for us is the fact that

Answer 1

Lincoln's support for gradual compensated emancipation in the Border States best supports the writer's idea that "statesmanship is not an abstract skill, but a contextual one".

Step-by-step explanation:

The detail that best supports the writer's idea that "statesmanship is not an abstract skill, but a contextual one" is Lincoln's support for gradual compensated emancipation in the Border States. The passage states that Lincoln believed voluntary acceptance of emancipation would have better long-term results than a forced arrangement. This detail shows that Lincoln understood the need to consider the specific context and circumstances of the Border States in order to reconcile them back to the Union.