AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
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highlights how many brave soldiers died during the war.
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allows him to avoid describing what people should do next.
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clarifies that people have to continue the work of the soldiers.
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encourages people to feel grateful that they are still alive.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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. Not: highlights how many brave soldiers died during the war. Most likely: clarifies that people have to continue the work of the soldiers.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -What is the “unfinished work” of those who died? Fighting to reunite the northern and southern states to one nation. What does Lincoln mean by “a new birth of freedom"? The hope that once the battles have been fought, we can live in peace and harmony together.
Detailed explanation-4: -Abraham Lincoln referred to the Civil War as a contest to see if that ideal of freedom and equality could long endure. Other democratic governments, of Greece, the Republic of Rome, had faltered and failed. The unfinished work was to make sure that the American experiment in democracy could succeed.
Detailed explanation-5: -The main message of the Gettysburg Address is that ideals are worth dying for and that it is up to the living to carry on the work of those who died to protect ideals. The ideals of equality and freedom are the bedrock of the United States as a nation.