Gettysburg Address (8.6.1)

  • Due Mar 4, 2021 at 4pm
  • Points 20
  • Questions 10
  • Time Limit None
  • Allowed Attempts 2

Instructions

Analyze the Gettysburg Address

Directions: Use the text of the Gettysburg Address to answer the questions.

The Gettysburg Address (1863) by Abraham Lincoln

        1Four 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.

        2 Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. 3We are met on a great battlefield of that war. 4We 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. 5It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

        6But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. 7The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. 8The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. 9It 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. 10It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

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