USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

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According to Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address, why are he and the others attending the ceremony unable to make the ground at Gettysburg holy?

(A) ** The soldiers who fought there have already made it holy.

(B) The site can never be holy until the Civil War has ended.

(C) Too much violence and bloodshed have taken place there.

(D) Only God, not human beings, can ever make a place holy.

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -According to Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address, why are he and the others attending the ceremony unable to make the ground at Gettysburg holy? The soldiers who fought there have already made it holy. The site can never be holy until the Civil War has ended.