(A) to hallow the ground.
(B) ** so that the nation might live.
(C) to stop the Confederate advance into Pennsylvania.
(D) so that slavery would be abolished.
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -“We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Concept note-2: -Lincoln’s Primary purpose for delivering the Gettysburg Address was to dedicate a cemetery. According to Lincoln, men gave their lives at Gettysburg so that the nation might live.
Concept note-3: -Lincoln was declaring that the United States would continue to fight to preserve the nation that was created by the Founding Fathers who wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
Concept note-4: -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.