AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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to make or declare holy
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to seize or take away
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to reconcile or make amends
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to fulfill a promise
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Detailed explanation-1: -consecrated. made, declared, or believed to be holy. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. devotion. commitment to some purpose.
Detailed explanation-2: -According to Lincoln, why are they unable to “dedicate, ” “consecrate, ” or “hallow” the battlefield? Because they can’t honor it as much as the soldiers declared it sacred. The ground already was dedicated and hallow by those who took part in the battle especially those who died.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Consecration of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery was the ceremony at which U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863. In addition to the 15, 000 spectators, attendees included six state governors: Andrew Gregg Curtin of Pennsylvania, Augustus Bradford of Maryland, Oliver P.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.