Question

Why did Abraham Lincoln give the Gettysburg Address?

Answer 1

In a concise 272 words, Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address attempted to convince the northern public to stay the course. Read the speech.

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“Four score and seven years ago,” he began, “our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” By making reference to the founding of the country 87 years before, Lincoln placed the battle within the larger arc of American history, thus connecting the work of Union soldiers at Gettysburg to the work of the Union’s founders at Philadelphia.

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The date was significant. Lincoln marked the creation of the republic not with the writing of the Constitution in 1787 but instead with the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration supplied the principle that “all men were created equal,” the principle for which, according to Lincoln, the war was now being waged.

Answer 2

Lincoln delivered the address on November 19, 1863. He was in Gettysburg to dedicate a national military cemetery to the Union soldiers who fell at the Battle of Gettysburg four months earlier. The North's victory here was one of the pivotal battles of the American Civil War.

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