Gettysburg Address Comprehension 1. According to Lincoln, what did "our fathers" create eighty-seven years ago?

2. According to Lincoln, the Civil War is a test of what idea?

3. Why have the speaker and the audience met on the battlefield at Gettysburg?

4. According to Lincoln, why are they unable to "dedicate," "consecrate," or "hallow" the battlefield?

5. At the end of the speech, how does Lincoln characterize the American system of government?

6. What does Lincoln expect the living attending the dedication at Gettysburg to do?

He mentions the past and the struggles that the Founding Fathers had to create a united nation, and they have to re-establish the unity by honoring the dead and continue prospering as America as a whole.

The civil war, according to Lincoln, was a test of whether that nation or any nation can endure or withstand or survive.

The speaker and the audience met on the battlefield at Gettysburg to remember the fallen soldiers. They were unable to “dedicate”, “consecrate” and “hallow”, to make sacred and holy, and to bless the land.

To consecrate means to declare something holy and hallow is its synonym. Lincoln is saying that the ground cannot be declared holy, because The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

At the end of the speech, how does Lincoln characterize the American system of government? The government for the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. What does Mrs?

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.

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theresa is going to be my girl this year, he promised himself as he left the gym full of students in his new fall clothes.