Using the text of the Gettysburg Address, answer the following questions:
1a - Lincoln said that the Civil War was being fought over an idea the Founding Fathers created the country to assure. What was that idea?

2a - What does Lincoln believe is the only way to honor the soldiers who died here?

3a - Toward the end of the speech what does Lincoln mean by a “new birth of freedom”?

4a - Why is this new birth of freedom necessary to have a “government of the people, by the people, for the people”?

Thinking questions:
1b - What features of Abraham Lincoln’s speech make it so memorable.

2b - The Gettysburg Address is unique for its length; it’s just 272 words. Do you think the speech’s brevity makes it more or less powerful? Why?

3b - Four score and 7 years equals 87 years. That was the year of the Declaration of Independence? Why does Lincoln focus on the Declaration and not the Constitution?

both are true, the congress does have the power to create banks, even if this power is not specifically described in the constitution, since there is nothing restricting it and there is power given to the congress to make "all laws which shall be necessary and proper". maryland was not allowed to tax a branch of the national bank operating there, and the supreme court decided that no state could. both of these topics were discussed in a decision of the mcculloch v. maryland case in 1819.

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the  equal rights amendment  (era) states: "equality  of  rights  under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the united states or by any state on account of sex." congress first introduced the era in 1923, but the campaign for ratification took off in the 1960s during the  civil rightsmovement.