What is the main idea of this excerpt of Abraham Lincolns Second Inaugural Address? “ on the occasion corresponding to this for years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending Civil War. I’ll dreading it also to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war seeking to dissolve union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And war came.”

Here are the choices

A. Both the Union and the Confederacy wanted to destroy their enemy

B. Both the union and the Confederacy were responsible for the civil war

C. Both the union and the Confederacy desire total authority by eliminating the other

D. Both the union and the Confederacy suffered huge economic losses due to the Civil War

E. Both the union and the Confederacy had stockpiled deadly weapons from the Civil War