USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

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According to Lincoln, men gave their lives at Gettysburg ____

(A) to hallow the ground

(B) ** that the nation might live

(C) to stop the Confederate advance into Pennsylvania

(D) so that slavery would be abolished

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -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. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

Concept note-2: -Lincoln’s Primary purpose for delivering the Gettysburg Address was to dedicate a cemetery. According to Lincoln, men gave their lives at Gettysburg so that the nation might live.

Concept note-3: -Lincoln was declaring that the United States would continue to fight to preserve the nation that was created by the Founding Fathers who wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776.