The ideas presented in Lincoln's second inaugural address were mainly influenced by A) the slaves in the South.

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.

the correct answer is (D) The Civil War that began during his first term of office.