USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

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Choose the definition of climax and the climax of the speech (two answers).

(A) ** The most exciting part of the plot.

(B) The least exciting plot point.

(C) ** Abraham Lincoln tells his audience that they shall not make the Gettysburg battlefield a holy or hallowed ground but they, and the world will never forget the sacrifices made by those who died.

(D) Abraham Lincoln basically tells his audience that it is their responsibility to win the war so that their fallen brethren shall not have died in vain

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Lincoln’s message in his Gettysburg Address was that the living can honor the wartime dead not with a speech, but rather by continuing to fight for the ideas they gave their lives for.

Concept note-2: -His main goal with the inaugural address was to hold the union together and prevent civil war, which he believed would leave the country open to attack from Britain and France. He reassured the slave states that he had no intention of outlawing slavery, quoting himself saying just that during his campaign.