USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

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that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom

(A) that our country, under God’s blessing, shall have a new form of government

(B) ** that our country, under God’s blessing, shall be reborn in freedom

(C) that we will become a really religious country

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Lincoln described the Civil War as a struggle for “a new birth of freedom"–his vision for a nation that provides equality for all of its citizens, creates a unified nation no longer dominated by states’ rights, and defines democracy in terms of “government of the people, by the people, for the people.”

Concept note-2: -Gettysburg Address …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. Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863.

Concept note-3: -The Gettysburg Address. President Lincoln delivered the 272 word Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863 on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.