Gettysburg Address Flashcards
What does this become?
One of the most famous speeches in American history
What did Lincoln speak of?
What battle meant to the soldiers who fought in it and what it meant to be to fight as a soldier in the union
What did Lincoln dedicate himself and the rest of the union to?
Winning he war
What were the opening words?
“Four scores and seven years ago or fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, convinced in liberty and dedicated to the preposition that all men are created equal”
What was the “consecrated” with?
The blood of the soldiers who have fought and died on this ground
What was another part of it?
“That we here were highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain- hat this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the poem by the people, for the people, shall not parish from the earth”
When?
Nov. 19, 1863
