Question

We are revolutionary, as they were, against tyranny and wrong, for liberty and right. But it is counterrevolution that we have inaugurated to rollback the government of the nation and the States to the principles and the policy of our Revolutionary fathers. The quote above is most directly correlated to which of the following?

(A) Lincoln's decision to place General Grant in charge of the Army of the Potomac.
(B) Lincoln's passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution.
(C) Lincoln's victory on the Republicans’ free soil platform in the presidential election of 1860.
(D) Contraction in the power of the federal government after the passage of the Compromise of 1850.

Answer 1

The quote is most directly correlated to Lincoln's victory on the Republicans’ free soil platform in the presidential election of 1860.

Step-by-step explanation:

The quote is most directly correlated to Lincoln's victory on the Republicans’ free soil platform in the presidential election of 1860. The quote emphasizes the idea of rolling back the government to the principles of the Revolutionary fathers, which aligns with Lincoln's goal to preserve the Union and follow the ideals of liberty and right. Lincoln's victory in 1860 allowed him to pursue his agenda of preventing the expansion of slavery and ultimately led to the Civil War.