AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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to hallow the ground.
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so that the nation might live.
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to stop the Confederate advance into Pennsylvania.
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so that slavery would be abolished.
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Detailed explanation-1: -“We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Detailed explanation-2: -Lincoln’s Primary purpose for delivering the Gettysburg Address was to dedicate a cemetery. According to Lincoln, men gave their lives at Gettysburg so that the nation might live.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lincoln was declaring that the United States would continue to fight to preserve the nation that was created by the Founding Fathers who wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
Detailed explanation-4: -Lincoln delivered the address on November 19, 1863. He was in Gettysburg to dedicate a national military cemetery to the Union soldiers who fell at the Battle of Gettysburg four months earlier.