Which contentious action did President Lincoln take in the Civil War that limited the rights of certain U. S. citizens? Question 2 options: He issued the Gettysburg Address. He freed slaves in states that were loyal to the North. He suspended the writ of habeas corpus. He introduced the first military draft.

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Which contentious action did President Lincoln take in the Civil War that limited the rights of certain U. S. citizens? Question 2 options: He issued the Gettysburg Address. He freed slaves in states that were loyal to the North. He suspended the writ of habeas corpus. He introduced the first military draft.

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Piper Wilson · Answer 1

He suspended the writ of habeas corpus.

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President Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus during the civil war. The Habeas Corpus Suspension Act was passed in 1863 and it authorized the president of the US to suspend the writ of habeas corpus as a response to the American Civil War.