GETTYSBURG

ADDRESS
1500's European Settlements The Union Terittory
Indentured servants were men and women who 1. Washington Territory
signed a contract (also known as an indenture or 2. Utah territory
a covenant) by which they agreed to work for a 3. Dakota territory
certain number of years in exchange for 4. Nebraska territory
transportation to Virginia and, once they arrived, 5. Colorado territory
food, clothing, and shelter. 6. New Mexico territory
They ran away from the European Law. 7. Indian territory

Reasons:
The Union States
They wanted to escape the European Law
They wanted Freedom to practice their faith 1. Illinois 10. Oregon
They saw many Economic Opportunities 2. Indiana 11. Nevada
3. Ohio 12. California
Transatlantic Slave Trade 4. Pennsylvania 13. Kansa
5. Massachusetts 14. Minnesota
From 1619 to 1620 Africans were forced into
6. Connecticut 15. Wisconsin
indentured servitude
7. New jersey 16. Iowa
By the 18th Century (1700)-6 to 7 million
8. Maine 17. Delaware
African served as slaves in America
9. Rhode Island

The Confederate States

American Revolution
1775 - 1783 1. South Carolina
2. North Carolina
8. Florida
9. Alabama
3. Texas 10. Georgia
United States War of Independence or 4. Arkansas 11. Virginia
American Revolutionary War 5. Louisiana
- Great Britian's North American colonies won 6. Tennessee
political independence and went on to from the 7. Mississippi
United States of America.
- The war followed more than a decade of
growing estrangement between the British
crown and a large influential segment of its
North American colonies

Declaration of Independence
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that
all men are created equal, that tehy are
endured by their Creator with certain
unalienable rights, that among these are life
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

JULY 4, 1776
The Emancipation Proclamation
(January 1, 1863)
UNION (north) fought AGAINST slavery
" All slaves in the
CONFEDERATE (south) fought FOR slavery
rebellious states
American Civil War 1861-1865
Growing interest in the North to abolish shall be then
thenceforward, and
slavery
September 22 1862 : Emancipation and
Proclamation- abolish slavery in the
Confederate States
Biggest war based on the soldiers that
forever be Free"
participated

The Gettysburg Address

ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Leader of the Republican party in 1860's
Becomes the 16th President of The United
States after receiving 40% of the popular
vote
Southerners call him the "Black Republican"

The Battle at Gettysburg

The battle happened on July 1 - 3 1863 in
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
163,000 soldiers fought the battle
Thousands were killed during the fight
27,000 were wounded
11,100 were captured or went missing
The southern forces were defeated

The Gettysburg Address

The address was about a 2-minute speech
given by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication
of the Soldier's national cemetery
Given 4 months after the costliest battle of
the Civil War
Total casualties of the Civil War to this time
472,154
The battle of Gettysburg alone had 54,707
 GETTYSBURG
ADDRESS
During a three-day Civil War battle at Gettysburg in early July 1863, there were over
23,000 Union casualties (including more than 3,000 deaths) and 28,000 Confederate
casualties (including at least 4,000 deaths). A portion of the battlefield was dedicated as a
National Soldiers’ Cemetery for the thousands of soldiers who had died.
Abraham Lincoln wrote and spoke the famous words known as the Gettysburg Address (below)
at the ceremony on November 19, 1863. He was not the main speaker for the dedication.
Edward Everett, a well-known orator, was the chief speaker and spoke for two hours.
Lincoln’s speech consisted of 272 words, lasted 2 minutes, and became known as one of the
greatest speeches ever made by an American president. Many young people were in the huge
crowd that day. Henry Jacobs, who was standing in front of the speaker’s stand wrote the
following about President Lincoln:
“At first his voice sounded a little strained and high-pitched, as if he were trying to throw his
voice to the outer edge of the crowd. He held in his right hand the manuscript he had brought
from the White House. . He emphasized the words ’of,’ ’by,’ and ’for’ (the people) with a stiff
yet sweeping bend of his body, holding the manuscript rigidly in both hands. . . Then he drew
himself up to his immense height, with his arms outstretched, as he impressively uttered the
final words, ’shall not-perish-from-the earth.

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 that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a
larger sense, we cannot dedicate we cannot consecrate we cannot 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, nor 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 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 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.