USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
“It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced” is translated as?
A
We need to dedicate this cemetery and make it look nice to honor these men.
B
We who are still alive need to promise to continue to fight for the ideas that these men died for.
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The “unfinished work” to which Lincoln refers, “the great task remaining before us, ” is to put into practice the proposition to which this nation was and is dedicated: that all men are created equal. Miraculous though it was, the Constitution had left that work unfinished.

Detailed explanation-2: -“Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. 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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The stated purpose of Lincoln’s speech was to dedicate a plot of land that would become Soldier’s National Cemetery. However, Lincoln realized that he also had to inspire the people to continue the fight. Below is the text of the Gettysburg Address, interspersed with my thoughts on what made it so memorable.

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