The "domestic institution" that Lincoln refers to in his inaugural address is slavery.
Directions: Use the following quotation to answer the questions below.
“[T]he maintenance . . . of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment [alone], is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend. . . .”
—Abraham Lincoln, 1st inaugural address, March 4, 1861
What is the “domestic institution” that Lincoln refers to in his inaugural address?
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Responses
the Civil War
the Civil War
secession from the Union
secession from the Union
the attack on Fort Sumner
the attack on Fort Sumner
slavery
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