Question

Which statement offers the BEST conclusion that one can draw from these two inaugural speeches?

A)
Davis believed the idea of secession was unconstitutional.
B)
Both Lincoln and Davis were dedicated to the goal of preserving the Union.
C)
Lincoln was prepared to use military force to prevent secession and keep the southern states in the Union.
D)
Lincoln's goal was to preserve the Union, while Davis's goal was to create an independent government for the Confederacy.

Answer 1

"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature"

--Abraham Lincoln, Inaugural Address, 1861.

Answer 2

"Our present position has been achieved in a manner unprecedented in the history of nations. It illustrates the American idea that government rests upon the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish a government whenever it becomes destructive of the ends for which it was established. The declared purposes of the compact of Union from which we have withdrawn were to establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, to provide for the common defence, to promote the general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity; and when in the judgment of the sovereign States now comprising this Confederacy it had been perverted from the purposes for which it was ordained, and had ceased to answer the ends for which it was established, an appeal to the ballot box declared that so far as they were concerned the government created by that compact should cease to exist"

--Jefferson Davis, Inaugural Address, 1861.

Answer 3

what is your question...?

Answer 4

Which statement offers the BEST conclusion that one can draw from these two inaugural speeches?

Answer 5

what you guess about the correct one...?

Answer 6

D

Answer 7

Yes, no, maybe so?

Answer 8

i will select C, according to passages....

Answer 9

Ok thank you!