Read the passage.
Excerpt from “A House Divided”
a speech by Abraham Lincoln
“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.
It will become all one thing, or all the other.
What does the house symbolize?
a government building
the United States as a whole
Abraham Lincoln’s home
the entire world
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the United States as a whole
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