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AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

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The final part of the Gettysburg Address declares that the sacrifices of those who died, plus the dedication of the living to finish their work, will give our nation “a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."According to this, finishing the war will
A
Renew our dedication to freedom and democracy
B
Create a new kind of country that did not exist before
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -So instead of coming to dedicate the ground, Lincoln says that the people are there to be dedicated to “the unfinished work” of the devoted soldiers-that is, the preservation of the Union and its ideals of liberty and equality.

Detailed explanation-2: -Gettysburg National Cemetery Entrance The cemetery is famous throughout the world as the site of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, delivered at the cemetery’s dedication ceremony four and a half months after the battle.

Detailed explanation-3: -“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. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground.”

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