Question

What was included in Lincoln's inaugural address?

The South would be invaded if the secession was not ended in 3 months.
Slavery must be outlawed.
The Dred Scott decision was wrong.
Federal posts in the South would be defended.
No state had a right to leave the Union.
Slavery could continue where it already existed.

Answer 1

Assuming you mean Lincoln’s first inaugural address (March 4, 1861), the true/false answers are:

- The South would be invaded if the secession was not ended in 3 months. — False. Lincoln did not issue a 3‑month invasion ultimatum; he said he would not be the first to provoke hostilities but would “take care that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed” where he lawfully could.

- Slavery must be outlawed. — False. Lincoln expressly said he had “no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists.”

- The Dred Scott decision was wrong. — False. He avoided attacking the Supreme Court in the inaugural; criticism of Dred Scott appears in other speeches (e.g., during the 1858 debates), not in this address.

- Federal posts in the South would be defended. — True. He stated he would hold, occupy, and possess federal property and enforce federal law in the seceded states.

- No state had a right to leave the Union. — True. He argued that no state, by its own mere motion, could lawfully secede from the Union.

- Slavery could continue where it already existed. — True. He promised not to interfere with slavery in the states where it already existed under the Constitution.