NAEP US History Grade 8

Category - US History

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. - Abraham Lincoln, 1858What did Abraham Lincoln mean in this speech?
  1. The South should be allowed to separate from the United States.
  2. The government should support slavery in the South.
  3. Sometime in the future slavery would disappear from the United States.
  4. Americans would not be willing to fight a war over slavery.
Explanation
Answer: C - Sometime in the future slavery would disappear from the United States.
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