USA HISTORY

“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us ____ that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion” is translated as?

(A) We have to promise to make this cemetery nice and remember these men.

(B) ** We need to promise that we will work on the great job ahead of us ____ to remember the dead we will increase our effort to save the ideas that they died for.

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: -In 1863, the task was to save the Union from a bloody and seemingly unending war. In 272 words, Lincoln gave purpose and meaning to the strife; he offered solace to a suffering nation and laid out a powerful vision of a future United States which could emerge from the conflict under a new birth of freedom.

Concept note-3: -So instead of coming to dedicate the ground, Lincoln says that the people are there to be dedicated to “the unfinished work” of the devoted soldiers-that is, the preservation of the Union and its ideals of liberty and equality.

Concept note-4: -What is the unfinished work that those listening to the speech are asked to achieve? “It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.