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Tree/Second Inaugural

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President Lincoln had a choice at the end of the
Civil War: he could punish the South, or he could
move forward and reunite the nation. Which
did he plan to do? Who was also at his second
inaugural address (and disagreed with Lincoln)?

Did you know?
President Lincoln’s
second inaugural
address was only 701
words long and took
about seven minutes to deliver. Compare that
to President Obama’s second inaugural speech,
which was 2,136 words long and took almost
20 minutes to deliver!
Photo of Ford’s Theatre mueum © Maxwell MacKenzie. Lincoln Inauguration photo courtesy of Library of Congress LC-USZ62-1676