PLEASE ANSWER Read the excerpt:

I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

—Abraham Lincoln

Why was the idea expressed by Abraham Lincoln in this speech significant?

A.
People at that time were still trying to compromise on the issue of slavery.
B.
It was the first time someone expressed the idea that the Union could dissolve.
C.
The speech began Abraham Lincoln's run for the presidency.
D.
It was the first time Abraham Lincoln spoke about slavery.

But on an april morning in 1959, i heard a mother of four, having coffee with four other mothers in a suburban development fifteen miles from new york, say in a tone of quiet desperation, “the problem.” and the others knew, without words, that she was not talking about a problem with her husband, or her children, or her home. suddenly they realized they all shared the same problem, the problem that has no name. which best describes the connotation of the word “desperation”? negative, because the woman is feeling confused negative, because the woman is expressing hopelessness positive, because the woman is expressing herself positive, because the woman and the mothers are in agreement

Read the graph that displays interest and total payments on a loan. banks make the most money and take the most risk with an interest rate of 5 percent. 10 percent. 15 percent 18 percent.

This is a government controlled by one person with absolute power. question 3 options: communist democratic autocratic parliamentary