Question

According to Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, why was the South's cause unjust?

Answer 1

Rejecting the South’s defense of slavery as “a positive good” and the North’s assumption that they had no responsibility for the peculiar institution, Lincoln used his Second Inaugural Address to propose a common public memory of both the war and American slavery as the basis for restoring national unity.

Answer 2

The South wanted to preserve and expand slavery.

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