USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

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What is the MAIN idea of the Gettysburg Address?

(A) We must help one another

(B) Our country will only survive when slavery is eliminated

(C) ** For those who have died, we must continue to fight for a new freedom

(D) We must continue to fight against those from other countries who threaten our liberties

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -The Gettysburg Address was given by Lincoln four months after the Battle of Gettysburg. The central idea Lincoln embedded in the Gettysburg Address was that Americans should honor those who fell in the battle and continue the war until it has been won.

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?