In "Second Inaugural Address," what is the "peculiar and powerful interest" that Lincoln says was "somehow the cause of the war"? A the desire to keep the Union together B Southerners who wanted to dissolve the Union C resentment over Lincoln's election enslaved people and the people who enslaved them

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In "Second Inaugural Address," what is the "peculiar and powerful interest" that Lincoln says was "somehow the cause of the war"? A the desire to keep the Union together B Southerners who wanted to dissolve the Union C resentment over Lincoln's election enslaved people and the people who enslaved them

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In the "Second Inaugural Address," Abraham Lincoln refers to the "peculiar and powerful interest" as slavery, and he suggests that it was somehow the cause of the Civil War. Therefore, the correct answer is:D) enslaved people and the people who enslaved them.

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