Outline of Lincoln's second Inaugural Adress

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• This speech will be quick
• There isn't much new news 
• He holds high hopes for the future
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• The nation would have split if not for the war
• Half of the country wanted to avoid war and split while the other wanted war to save it, they went to war.
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• Slavery is what caused the war, but it was fought to keep the nation together
• No one anticipate the magnitude of the war and that the conflict was still there
• Everyone worships the same God and reads the same Bible
• God has a plan, and this is part of it.
• No one is to judge God for his plan
• Its over when God says it's over
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• His plan is to bind the country's wounds and come together a one stronger country 
•  Everyone should care for one another
• Do whatever it takes to keep peace among the nation.