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How does Lincoln describe the Civil War in his Second Inaugural Address?

In his speech, Douglass makes it clear that the United States has not been living up to ideas set up in this foundational text:

Lincoln delivered The Gettysburg Address less than a hundred years after the founding of the United States of America.

What does Thoreau mean when he says, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation”?

When describing reading and literature, what fault does Thoreau find with readers?

True or False. Lincoln was assassinated before Lee surrendered at Appomattox.

In Hawthorne’s story “The May-Pole of Merry Mount”, who cuts down the may-pole?

What does Lincoln mean by “with malice toward none, with charity for all” in his address?

Douglass never regrets having learned to read.

How does the speaker of the poem typically regard the earth (sec. 21)?