USA HISTORY

When the author writes that “Mary Bowman’s soul seemed to smooth itself out like a scroll ____ her heart slackened, “ it becomes clear that Lincoln’s speech made Mary

(A) more angry and hateful toward the president

(B) more determined to avenge her husband’s death

(C) ** more calm and at peace with herself and her life

(D) more sad and distraught at the death of her husband

Concept note-1: -Lesson Summary. President Abraham Lincoln wrote and delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863, to commemorate a new national cemetery at Gettysburg during the American Civil War. The Gettysburg Address’s significance is that it sought to give meaning to the sacrifice of soldiers who died during the war.

Concept note-2: -Lincoln’s message in his Gettysburg Address was that the living can honor the wartime dead not with a speech, but rather by continuing to fight for the ideas they gave their lives for. Was this answer helpful?

Concept note-3: -On November 19, 1863 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Abraham Lincoln gives his most famous speech as president. This address takes place at union cemetery after the Battle of Gettysburg and is meant to help mourn the loss of the soldiers that died, but it did way more than that.

Concept note-4: -Lincoln’s address lasted just two or three minutes. The speech reflected his redefined belief that the Civil War was not just a fight to save the Union, but a struggle for freedom and equality for all, an idea Lincoln had not championed in the years leading up to the war.