AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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President Lincoln’s death
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winning the Civil War
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discovery of a treasure
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the ship’s arrival in port
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Detailed explanation-1: -The prize is the independence from the slavery which was a prize of struggling for attaining independence from slavery. They fought the war and won it and the independence which they got after winning the war was like a prize for the struggle that they had done.
Detailed explanation-2: -The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won; What does “the prize we sought is won” refer to? The North has won the Civil War. Read Lincoln’s statement from “The Gettysburg Address."
Detailed explanation-3: -Answer: America had braved the tough storm of the Civil War and ‘the prize’ was the preservation of the Union winning the war as it says “the people all exulting".
Detailed explanation-4: -The “ship” is the United States, and the “prize” is the preservation of the Union.
Detailed explanation-5: -: something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance. also : premium sense 1d. : something exceptionally desirable. 3. archaic : a contest for a reward : competition.