AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
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the creation of a final resting place
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a great civil war
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the proposition that all men are created equal
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a new birth of freedom
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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.
Detailed explanation-2: -What he really meant was that the American colonists, as a people, had the same rights of self-government as other peoples, and hence could declare independence, create new governments and assume their “separate and equal station” among other nations.
Detailed explanation-3: -Correct. The phrase that Lincoln quotes from the Declaration of Independence is “all men are created equal.” The phrase “let Facts be submitted to a candid world” is also a phrase from the Declaration of Independence, but Lincoln did not include this phrase in the Gettysburg Address.