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AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What was the “unfinished work” that Lincoln was referring to in the sentence below:"It is for use the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.”
A
Consecrating a memorial
B
Winning the Civil War
C
Gaining freedom
D
Getting rid of slavery
Explanation: 

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: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Abraham Lincoln referred to the Civil War as a contest to see if that ideal of freedom and equality could long endure. Other democratic governments, of Greece, the Republic of Rome, had faltered and failed. The unfinished work was to make sure that the American experiment in democracy could succeed.

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