"One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over
the Union, but localized in the southern
part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar
and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To
strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents
would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no
right to do more
than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the
magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the
cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease."
What is the purpose of this passage from President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address?
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What is the climax of chapter 2 of the the sound and the fury? a. the compsons sell their plot of land to send quentin to harvard. b. quentin drops out of school. c. quentin commits suicide. d. caddy gets pregnant.

"as joseph sat in history class, he was aware that the teacher was talking, but instead of paying attention, he doodled in his notebook." this is an example of a. listening b. hearing c. talking d. understanding

Sonnets are lyric poems that often contain figurative language. which two parts of shakespeare's sonnet 116 are examples of repetition? sonnet 116 by william shakespeare (let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: ) o no; it is an ever-fixed mark, that looks on tempests, and is never shaken; (it is the star to every wandering bark,) whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come; (love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,) but bears it out even to the edge of doom. (if this be error and upon me proved,) i never writ, nor no man ever loved.everything in quotations are the highlighted sentences, choose from these sentences to answer the question. make sure to choose two answers, you!