USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

[SOURCES]
Which word best describes the emotions evoked by Lincoln’s speech?

(A) Vengeance

(B) Hopelessness

(C) Frustration

(D) ** Reverence

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -President Abraham Lincoln does an outstanding job of using pathos in his speech. The setting and the audience were very emotional coming off a battle that left 8, 000 men dead. It was very easy for Abraham Lincoln to use pathos in his speech to remember the fallen soldiers, and comfort the audience.

Concept note-2: -The main message of the Gettysburg Address is that ideals are worth dying for and that it is up to the living to carry on the work of those who died to protect ideals. The ideals of equality and freedom are the bedrock of the United States as a nation.

Concept note-3: -There is some debate about the immediate public reaction to the Gettysburg Address. Some newspapers panned it, others loved it. According to some accounts, the crowd gathered for the dedication didn’t think it was a very good speech for the occasion-and neither did Lincoln himself.