What Lincoln meant when he said: "A house divided against itself 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."

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Amiah Haynes

4 March, 04:05

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Brooke Dennis · Answer 1

Lincoln meant that the country can't survive with half slavery and the other half without it. They have to come together as one nation.