In the excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, he makes a connection between ideas and events. The passage discusses the thoughts and actions of people leading up to the Civil War, highlighting the conflicting ideas about preserving the Union and the events that ultimately led to war.
Read the following excerpt from Second Inaugural Address and answer the question.
On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, urgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war—seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.
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Referring to Civil War in his address, Abraham Lincoln makes connection between ideas and ________.
events
characters
ideas
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