(A) Abraham Lincolns executive order freeing all Confederate slaves.
(B) A union victory that stopped General Robert E. Lee
(C) A speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln declaring an end to the war.
(D) ** A speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln explaining why the war was being fought and to dedicate the Gettysburg cemetery to the fallen Union soldiers.
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Concept note-1: -Gettysburg Address On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered a short speech at the close of ceremonies dedicating the battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Honoring a request to offer a few remarks, Lincoln memorialized the Union dead and highlighted the redemptive power of their sacrifice.
Concept note-2: -In it, he invoked the principles of human equality contained in the Declaration of Independence and connected the sacrifices of the Civil War with the desire for “a new birth of freedom, ” as well as the all-important preservation of the Union created in 1776 and its ideal of self-government.
Concept note-3: -few have said more with less. Lincoln delivered the address on November 19, 1863. He was in Gettysburg to dedicate a national military cemetery to the Union soldiers who fell at the Battle of Gettysburg four months earlier. The North’s victory here was one of the pivotal battles of the American Civil War.