Lincoln hoped to use a well-known figure of speech to help rouse the people to recognition of the magnitude of the ongoing debates over the legality of slavery. His use of this paraphrased metaphor is perhaps clearer when you look at some more of his speech:
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe the 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. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South.
As you can see, in this metaphor, the "house" refers to the Union — to the United States of America — and that house was divided between the opponents and advocates of slavery. Lincoln felt that the ideals of freedom for all and the institution of slavery could not coexist — morally, socially, or legally — under one nation. Slavery must ultimately be universally accepted or universally denied.
The answer is D, the Quartering Act. When British troops were housed in colonial homes, they were being quartered.
Newspapers were modest single sheets because the printing press could not be used to print on both sides of a sheet of paper and interest in the form had not quite yet taken off.
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John Winthrop was important because he was an early Puritan leader whose vision for a holy commonwealth laid the groundwork for an established religion that stayed in place in Massachusetts until long after the First Amendment was adopted. It was, however, soon supplanted by ideals of the church and state separation.
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Eunuchs, the royal clans, and the Confucian scholars.
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