Question:
Read the quotation below.
A house divided against itself cannot stand. –Abraham Lincoln This quotation reflects Lincoln’s belief that
A) state legislators, not popular vote, should settle the slavery issue.
B) slavery should be abolished throughout the United States.
C) the United States would have to become either all slave or all free.
D) popular vote, not state legislators, should settle the slavery issue.
The quotation reflects Lincoln’s belief that the United States would have to become either all slave or all free.
Answer: Option C
Step-by-step explanation:
President Abraham Lincoln had delivered his house divided speech in Springfield on 16 June 1858. This speech became his one of the best speeches of his career. Lincoln’s speech was in response to the Douglas’s concept of popular sovereignty.
He believed that after verdict of Supreme Court in Dred Scott v. Sandford, the option of popular sovereignty for deciding the status of state as Free State or slave state is meaningless and either entire country will be slave or free.