"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this 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."

— Abraham Lincoln, 1858

What did Lincoln predict would happen with regard to slavery in the US?

The nation would go to war over the issue.

Eventually, slavery would become legal – or illegal – everywhere.

Slavery would be abolished in the nation.