Answer the following questions about Lincoln's First Inaugural Address and submit your answers. Complete all parts of the lesson assignment before submitting your assignment for grading.
- To what did Lincoln refer to as "a disruption of the Federal Union"?
- What did he mean when he said, "Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed in the fundamental law of all national governments"?
- If the U.S. is not a government proper, but a contract, how could the contract be rescinded (taken back)?
- What did he consider acts of violence against the U.S. to be?
- Who did he consider his "rightful masters"?
- What did he mean when he said, "Plainly the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy"?
- Why did he say that the issue of civil war was in the hands of his dissatisfied countrymen?
- Does he seem willing to forgive them if they will come back into the Union?