In the final days of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln
A. met with Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia.
B. called on the Confederacy to negotiate a peace treaty with the United States.
C. insisted that the Confederacy had no legal right to exist.
D. declared that the Confederate government must repudiate its constitution.
E. argued it best to readmit the Confederate states to the Union without condition.
Answer: C
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