AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
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Question
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Which quotation from the text best demonstrates Lincoln’s main purpose for writing the Gettysburg Address?
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“It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.”
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“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
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“But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground.”
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“We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field ____ “
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -President Abraham Lincoln wrote and delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863, to commemorate a new national cemetery at Gettysburg during the American Civil War. The Gettysburg Address’s significance is that it sought to give meaning to the sacrifice of soldiers who died during the war.
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