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What is Lincoln's primary purpose with these final words?: It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here, have, thus far, 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 here 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 of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Group of answer choices

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The correct answer to this open question is the following.

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Abraham Lincoln's primary purpose with these final words was to honor the soldiers who died in the Civil War.

We are talking about the famous Gettysburg address, delivered by US President Abraham Lincoln on November 18, 1863, in the Soldier's National Cemetery.

President Lincoln referred to the principles that supported the Declaration of Independence and how the soldiers on the battlefield tried to defend those ideals of liberty and equality.

The commentary had been the place of one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War.

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