Question

Read this excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and then answer the question that follows:

(1) Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war ... testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated ... can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.

(2) We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate ... we cannot consecrate ... we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

Pay close attention to the word choice in the passage. What is the purpose of this speech?

To anger and excite
To honor and inspire
To soften and retreat
To alter and change

Answer 1

b. to honor and inspire

this is because he honors the people who died in the war and he inspires others to look back at the morals the country started with (liberty and all men would be created equal) and he does this to remind the people of who they are and who they should be.

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Answer 2

To honor and inspire.

Step-by-step explanation:

President Abraham Lincoln's speech at Gettysburg is one that addresses the need for those listeners and the common mass to honor the sacrifices the soldiers made. They died while fighting for their country and their rights, defending the others even at the cost of their own lives.

Based on the two excerpts, it is evident that Lincoln uses the image of the fathers building the nation on the basis of equality and liberty for all. And it is upon them to see whether that nation made can stay united for long. In an effort to inspire the people, he emphasized on the need to honor the dead and the sacrifices of others. The actions of "the brave men" will never be forgotten what they did. And it is this that the people need to know and remember when they think of how the great nation of America came to be. It is a form of reminder for them about who they are and how they came to be.