AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
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consecrating a cemetery
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abolishing slavery
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not dying in vain
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winning the war
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Detailed explanation-1: -The unfinished work includes the fact that the struggle continues for a new birth of freedom. “that this nation should have a new birth of freedom” According to the address, when was this nation’s first birth of freedom? In the first line of the address, Lincoln describes the birth of freedom in this country in 1776.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1863, the task was to save the Union from a bloody and seemingly unending war.
Detailed explanation-3: -To remain a nation “dedicated to the proposition that all men”-all people-“are created equal” and that “government of, by, and for the people shall not perish from the earth”-these are the “unfinished work” and the “great task remaining” of every generation. Ours is no exception.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.