AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
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bill of rights
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Declaration of Independence
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daffy duck
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civil rights
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Detailed explanation-1: -Lincoln began his Gettysburg Address with a direct allusion to and quotation from the Declaration of Independence. Fourscore and seven years ago refers to 1776, and all men are created equal is a quotation from the document.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Detailed explanation-4: -Lincoln was declaring that the United States would continue to fight to preserve the nation that was created by the Founding Fathers who wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776.