Question

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

— Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address (1865)


In this excerpt, President Abraham Lincoln expresses his view that


a the South must be severely punished for having threatened the Union

b the South should be welcomed back to the Union with justice and kindness

c Confederates should be banned from public life for their role in the Civil War

d the damage done to the Union can never be fully repaired

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

a: Never. He is expressing anything but a. It might be true of other people, not not Lincoln. He never intended this war to happen and the unhappiest man that it dis was certainly Abraham Lincoln. Just read the first line.

c. Nowhere is C promoted in this quotation. Nowhere. As it cannot be a, it certainly cannot be C.

d. Nowhere is D stated either. He was the leader of the Northern troops. He would never advocate D as being true. Both sides committed great damage although this is not stated.

B is by far the only answer you can choose. Both sides took heavy losses and there is a sadness in Lincoln's tone that conveys this. Read the widows and orphans sentence again.