Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

An inaugural address is often filled with cheerful promises for the future. But on March 4, 1865, Abraham Lincoln had to justify his first term's decision to go to war, while also reassuring a grieving country that the war will soon end.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 11 Unit 2's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: The Crucible, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, The New England Primer, The Trial of Martha Carrier, The Lessons of Salem, The Very Proper Gander, Declaration of Conscience, Why I Wrote The Crucible, Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, Speech to the Virginia Convention, The Gettysburg Address, FDR's First Inaugural Address , JFK's Inaugural Address