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“ Four 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. 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. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field , as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But , in larger sense, we can not dedicate we can not consecrate we can not 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, not long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather , to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus for so nobly advanced. It 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 box freedom and that government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the earth. “ Abraham Lincoln - November 19 , 1863

Why did Lincoln deliver this speech ? In other words , what was his reason ( authors purpose ) for giving this speech

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He gave this speech after the Battle of Ghettysberg which was the most devasting battle of the civil war. He gave the speech to encourage the Union to continue fighting the war despite how difficult it had been because the cause they were fighting for was worth how hard it was.

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