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    The Gettysburg Address summarizes that 87 years ago the Founding Fathers created a new nation based on the idea that all men are equal. Now the country is engaged in a civil war testing whether this idea of equality can survive. Lincoln was dedicating a portion of the Gettysburg battlefield as a cemetery for those who died fighting to preserve the nation. He calls on the living to dedicate themselves to finishing the work that those who died had started to ensure the country, which is by and for the people, does not perish.

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    The Gettysburg Address summarizes that 87 years ago the Founding Fathers created a new nation based on the idea that all men are equal. Now the country is engaged in a civil war testing whether this idea of equality can survive. Lincoln was dedicating a portion of the Gettysburg battlefield as a cemetery for those who died fighting to preserve the nation. He calls on the living to dedicate themselves to finishing the work that those who died had started to ensure the country, which is by and for the people, does not perish.

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    Prove It!

    Primary Source Analysis

    The Gettysburg Address

    Directions: Using the words above, prove the following statements to be true. Complete the
    chart below by indicating the line where you found the proof, then write the actual words from
    the text.

    Statement Line(s) # Actual Text


    1,2,3 Four score and seven years ago our fathers
    87 years ago, the Founding brought forth on this continent, a new nation,
    Fathers created a brand new conceived in liberty and dedicated to the
    country here based on the proposition that all men are created equal
    idea that everyone is equal.

    4,5 Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing


    Now, we are at war with whether that nation or any nation so conceived
    ourselves, and this war is and dedicated can long endure we are met on a
    testing whether that kind of great battle-field of tht war
    country can survive.
    6,7 We have to dedicated a portion of that field as a
    We are here today to dedicate final resting place for those whohere gave their
    a part of this battlefield as a lives so that nation might live
    cemetery for the soldiers that
    died here for their country.

    11,12 ,13 But it can never forget what they did. It is for us
    It’s up to the rest of us that the living rather to be dedicated here to the
    are still alive to dedicate unfinished work which they who fought have
    ourselves to finishing what thus far so nobly advanced it is rather for us to
    these soldiers started. be here dedicated to the great the great task
    remaining for us

    16, 17 Shall we have a new birth of freedom and that


    We have to promise that a government of the people, by the people, for the
    country that is made up of the people, shall not perish from the earth
    people, was created by the
    people, and made to serve the
    people can exist.

    Short Answer Response

    1. Why does Lincoln refer to the founding fathers? To relate because they also fought in
    war and they were the founders of this country

    2. What does the speech say the soldiers are fighting for?
    They are fighting for the freedom of there family and loved ones.

    3. What does Lincoln mean by a “new birth of freedom”? Whose freedom is he talking
    About? Slave

    4. Are all people created equal?


    ..’’\

    ‘77
    /\

    Yes but they are not treated equal.

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