USA HISTORY

Read this sentence from the text:"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-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."Based on this evidence, what conclusion can you draw about the cause “these honored dead” fought and died for?

(A) They fought and died in order to be honored by the government.

(B) ** They fought and died for the government and nation to survive in freedom.

(C) They fought and died to show their devotion to the people they loved.

(D) They fought and died to create a new nation with a new government.

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.