AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
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Question
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America’s Founding Fathers.
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Abraham Lincoln’s dad.
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The fathers of the soldiers who died.
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Christopher Columbus.
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Detailed explanation-1: -“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. “Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
Detailed explanation-2: -At Gettysburg Lincoln explained: the suffering and sacrifice must lead to “a new birth of freedom” that would perpetuate the achievement and the ideals of the fathers-the soldiers of the Revolutionary War who had “brought forth” the nation.
Detailed explanation-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.