Question

President Abraham Lincoln's speech at Gettysburg was

A. the only speech given on the day of the ceremony.
B. very long and followed by another brief speech.
C. very brief and delivered after another two-hour speech.
D. delivered at the beginning of the ceremony.

Answer 1

C.
The Gettysburg Address was given in about two minutes after a speech that took about two hours by the speaker before him. Lincoln was not the main speaker the day he gave this speech, and was therefore very concise with the thoughts he shared that day.

Answer 2

ANSWER: C. Very brief and delivered after another two-hour speech.

EXPLANATION: The speech of Abraham Lincoln was a two to three minutes long speech after the speech of Edward Everett. Edward Everett's speech was a two-hour long speech which came to be known as "Gettysburg Address" but still its not that popular today. Lincoln's speech was a few approximate remarks which were completed in ten sentences and focused on summarizing the war. This short but effective speech became the most popular speech in the history.