10 points In the excerpt above, what does “this interest" refer to? *
All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. To
strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest, was the object for which
the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government
claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it.
-President Abraham Lincoln, second inaugural address, 1865
The Confederate States of America
Protective tariffs
Slavery
The U. S. Constitution