USA HISTORY

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining beforeus . . . that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and thatgovernment of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish fromthe earth.-Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, 1863What outcome did Abraham Lincoln believe would accomplish the goal mentioned in thisexcerpt?

(A) A new Constitution would be written.

(B) ** The Union would be preserved without slavery.

(C) The government would give more power to the states.

(D) New states would replace those lost to the Confederacy

Concept note-1: -The “unfinished work” to which Lincoln refers, “the great task remaining before us, ” is to put into practice the proposition to which this nation was and is dedicated: that all men are created equal. Miraculous though it was, the Constitution had left that work unfinished.

Concept note-2: -“Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.

Concept note-3: -The Gettysburg Address. President Lincoln delivered the 272 word Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863 on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.