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"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." This excerpt from an inaugural address was given as the the country was emerging from A) World War I. B) the Civil War. C) the Great Depression. Eliminate D) Kennedy's assassination

Respuesta :

the civil war, abe Lincoln is the one speaking btw

Answer:

B) the Civil War

Explanation:

This was President Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural speech that governed the country in the context of the Civil War. In the speech, the president mourned the terrible war, the deaths of Americans, and credited God with the will for the end or continuation of the war. In this speech, Lincoln set the tone for his plan for the reconstruction of the country that would emerge after the civil war, which would take care of Americans, families of the dead in particular, and rebuild a nation based on peace.