(A) Finish the Civil War
(B) Finish the Revolutionary War
(C) ** Work to ensure all men are actually equal
(D) Work to ensure slavery still exists
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -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-2: -The unfinished work includes the fact that the struggle continues for a new birth of freedom. “that this nation should have a new birth of freedom” According to the address, when was this nation’s first birth of freedom? In the first line of the address, Lincoln describes the birth of freedom in this country in 1776.
Concept note-3: -Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
Concept note-4: -What is the “unfinished work” of those who died? Fighting to reunite the northern and southern states to one nation. What does Lincoln mean by “a new birth of freedom"? The hope that once the battles have been fought, we can live in peace and harmony together.