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What does "We are met on a great battlefield of that war" mean

Reference: Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln

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Answer:

the quote refers to the civil war (more info below)

Step-by-step explanation:

“We are meeting on the great battlefield of that war“. That war refers to the Civil War. The government of the people, of the people and of the people, shall not perish from the earth "refers to the sense of mission that the USA exists as an experiment in democracy.

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