Text of Gettysburg Address
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.
What is the "unfinished work Lincoln mentions in paragraph 3?
O reuniting the Union
O completing the cemetery
O dedicating the cemetery
O defeating Lee at Gettysburg