You will be given three sentences. Read them, then identify a noun phrase (person, place, or thing) or event that is shared between all three sentences. As the output, write the span of the text corresponding to that phrase in each sentence. Keep the order of the sentences, that is, your answer should look like: 1: *a phras from sentence 1e* 2: *a phras from sentence 2* 3: *a phrase from sentence 3*
Q: 1: The U.S . landmass , he insisted ,  is well adapted to be the home of one national family ; and it is not well adapted for two , or more  because  there is no line , straight or crooked , suitable for a national boundary upon which to divide .  2: These places had begun as federal territory -- the common inheritance of all Americans -- and it was the federal government that had indeed brought these new states to life . 3: Lincoln saw the federal government as pre-eminent and believed there was no logical border for dividing the U.S.
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1: The U.S . landmass 2: federal territory 3: the U.S.