USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

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What does Lincoln mean when he references “a new birth of freedom?”

(A) The establishment of Social Security

(B) Defeating the Southern Army

(C) Giving women the right to vote

(D) ** Equality for every American citizen regardless of skin color

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: -Three hundred and twenty two days after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, he delivered the Gettysburg Address, one of the two most famous speeches in American history. He vowed that soldiers who died at Gettysburg gave their lives for a “new birth of freedom” by securing the Union.