Directions: Use the following quotation to answer the questions below.
“[T]he maintenance . . . of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment [alone], is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend. . . .”
—Abraham Lincoln, 1st inaugural address, March 4, 1861
In his inaugural address, why did Lincoln refer to the right of each state to control its own affairs?
to assure the southern states that they would make their own decisions about slavery
to affirm his belief in popular sovereignty
to assure the North that slavery would be abolished in all states
to assure the Confederate States of America that their decision to secede was valid