AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
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full devotion of all citizens to the Union.
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women, as well as slaves, will have equal rights.
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a proper memorial for those who have died in the war
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a new birth of freedom and all men will be created equal
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Detailed explanation-1: -Lincoln described the Civil War as a struggle for “a new birth of freedom"–his vision for a nation that provides equality for all of its citizens, creates a unified nation no longer dominated by states’ rights, and defines democracy in terms of “government of the people, by the people, for the people.”
Detailed explanation-2: -Slavery, Lincoln stated, was the reason for the war: One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves. Not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it.
Detailed explanation-3: -In it, he invoked the principles of human equality contained in the Declaration of Independence and connected the sacrifices of the Civil War with the desire for “a new birth of freedom, ” as well as the all-important preservation of the Union created in 1776 and its ideal of self-government.
Detailed explanation-4: -“Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.”