Answer the following questions about Lincoln's First Inaugural Address and submit your answers. Complete all parts of the lesson assignment before submitting your assignment for grading.

1. To what did Lincoln refer to as "a disruption of the Federal Union"?
2. What did he mean when he said, "Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed in the fundamental law of all national governments"?
3. If the U.S. is not a government proper, but a contract, how could the contract be rescinded (taken back)?
4. What did he consider acts of violence against the U.S. to be?
5. Who did he consider his "rightful masters"?
6. What did he mean when he said, "Plainly the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy"?
7. Why did he say that the issue of civil war was in the hands of his dissatisfied countrymen?
8. Does he seem willing to forgive them if they will come back into the Union?