(A) Finishing the Lincoln Memorial statue
(B) Winning the battle of Vicksburg
(C) Passing a tax bill in Congress
(D) ** Ensuring that all men are truly equal by winning the war
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: -Abraham Lincoln referred to the Civil War as a contest to see if that ideal of freedom and equality could long endure. Other democratic governments, of Greece, the Republic of Rome, had faltered and failed. The unfinished work was to make sure that the American experiment in democracy could succeed.
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.