{"id":748,"date":"2021-07-20T12:11:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T12:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/?page_id=748"},"modified":"2021-07-20T12:11:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T12:11:21","slug":"featured-questions-from-the-secession-crisis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/featured-questions-from-the-secession-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Questions from the Secession Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Lincoln\u2019s House Divided speech targeted Northern sentiments in 1858, whereas the First Inaugural Address (1861) aimed more toward the country as a whole.\u00a0 How did Lincoln&#8217;s message change depending on the context of his audience? <em>(Ava Yuninger)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Lincoln&#8217;s &#8220;House Divided&#8221; speech of 1858, he mentioned that the Democrats in 1856 were the same &#8220;enemies&#8221; as those facing the Republicans in the 1858 election. In Lincoln&#8217;s First Inaugural of 1861, he mentioned that &#8220;we must not be enemies&#8221; in regard to the slaveholders of the South. Did Lincoln reach out to the slaveholders in his First Inaugural because he believed he could win over the white southerners or was it because he was being pressured to do so?\u00a0 <em>(Camera Bailey)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How did Lincoln\u2019s audience respond to his claim that he had \u201cno inclination\u201d to \u201cinterfere with the institution of slavery?\u201d How might historians interpret his stance knowing that he issued the Emancipation Proclamation later in the war?\u00a0<em>(Etsub Taye)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Abraham Lincoln\u2019s \u201cHouse Divided\u201d speech stated, \u201cWe shall not fail\u2014if we stand firm, we shall not fail.\u201d In this quote, \u201cwe\u201d was emphasizing to Republicans that they would triumph over the Democrats.\u00a0 How might Lincoln attempt to unite red and blue America today?\u00a0<em>(Ajla Salkic)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lincoln\u2019s House Divided speech targeted Northern sentiments in 1858, whereas the First Inaugural Address (1861) aimed more toward the country as a whole.\u00a0 How did Lincoln&#8217;s message change depending on the context of his audience? (Ava Yuninger) &nbsp; In Lincoln&#8217;s &#8220;House Divided&#8221; speech of 1858, he mentioned that the Democrats in 1856 were the same &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/featured-questions-from-the-secession-crisis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Featured Questions from the Secession Crisis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-748","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/748\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}