Question

In his 1st Inaugural Address on March 4, 1961, President Abraham Lincoln: 1) characterized Southerners as traitors with no morals; 2) labeled the seceded states as being the archenemy of the Union; and 3) threatened people living in the CSA states of being annihilated by the Union Army.

Answer 1

1) characterized Southerners as traitors with no morals

Step-by-step explanation:

Abraham Lincoln as the elected president of the United States of America when most Southern States are planing to secceed out from the union accused them of being traitors with no morals.

This is because, they with the Northern States entered into contract agreement inorder to form the Union known as United States of America but want to seceed out just because of slave trade issues that came up.

He ended up reassuring them of his plan on not abolishing the slave trade nor bring to stop the law in the constitutuion called the Fugitive Slave Act.

In his concluding part of his speech, he advised the Southern States to work with the Free States to come up with solutions to the slave trade rather than seceeding. If the try to seceed, he would be left with no other option to employ military force to ensure the unification of all states in the country rather than its breaking into smaller regions.

Answer 2

2. Labeled the seceded states as archenemy on the Union

Step-by-step explanation:

President Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. In his inaugural address on the 4th March 1861, which he address to the people of South, where 7 states have seceded to form the Confederates States of America. He denounced the secession as anarchy. His leadership was met with American civil war after the confederated states attack at Fort Sumter. The civil war was fought between the north and south majorly over the long standing controversial issue on the continued enslavement of black people.