When did this speech take place?
Lincoln Second Inaugural Address

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10th - 12th Grade
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Margaret Anderson
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
on the day before the Civil War began
on the occasion of President Lincoln’s second inauguration
on the occasion of President Lincoln’s first inauguration
on the day after the Civil War began
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
In his speech, Abraham Lincoln explains a cause of the Civil War. What was this cause?
taking the oath of the presidential office for a second time
asking God’s assistance in wringing bread from other men
conflicting desires to strengthen, perpetuate, and extend an interest in slaves
reading the same Bible and praying to the same God
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The North and South shared some common interests.
What evidence from Lincoln’s speech supports this conclusion about the interests of the North and South?
Lincoln said that all dreaded civil war and all sought to avert it.
Lincoln said that slavery ended before the Civil War did.
Lincoln said everyone knew that an interest in slaves was the cause of the war.
Lincoln said that colored slaves made up one-eighth of the whole population.
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What is the tone of this speech?
accusatory
reflective
defensive
celebratory
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is a main message of this speech?
Despite their differences, the North and South must work together to achieve peace.
The nation has finally moved past the Civil War and is now prospering again.
The South is solely to blame for the Civil War and should therefore be punished.
The occasion of President Lincoln’s second inauguration is a time to celebrate.
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Read this sentence from the text.
"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 the war came."
What does the phrase “deprecated war” mean here?
looked forward to war
disliked war
prepared for war
did not understand war
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Choose the answer that best completes the sentence.
__________ both parties read the same Bible and pray to the same God, the prayers of both could not be answered.
Because
Before
Since
While
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