What is the main idea of this excerpt of Abraham Lincolns Second Inaugural Address? “ on the occasion corresponding to this for years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending Civil War. I’ll dreading it also to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war seeking to dissolve union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And war came.”

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A. Both the Union and the Confederacy wanted to destroy their enemy

B. Both the union and the Confederacy were responsible for the civil war

C. Both the union and the Confederacy desire total authority by eliminating the other

D. Both the union and the Confederacy suffered huge economic losses due to the Civil War

E. Both the union and the Confederacy had stockpiled deadly weapons from the Civil War

Click to review the online content. then answer the question(s) below, using complete sentences. scroll down to view additional questions. site 1: "schools of literary theory" site 2: "the tell-tale heart" by edgar allan poe according to plato, how does one judge the value of a piece of art? (site 1)

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Select the correct answer. lyric poems often deal with intense emotions. which statement best describes the shift in emotion in "lift every voice and sing" as it moves from the first into the second stanza? lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty; let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, facing the rising sun of our new day begun let us march on till victory is won. stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed? we have come over a way that with tears has been watered, we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. a. the joyful call of the first stanza gives way to a bitter recounting of history in the second. b. the first stanza's anger is replaced by the second stanza's resignation. c. the poem moves from a sense of wonder in the first stanza toward a sense of perplexity in the second. d. there is no change between the first stanza and the second. the emotions are the same in both.