Gettysburg Address

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According to the speech, what was the new nation dedicated to?

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the proposition that all men are created equal

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In this speech, what is Abraham Lincoln trying to persuade people to do?

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to continue the work of the people who fought and died in Gettysburg

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Why might Lincoln have used the words "us" and "we" in this excerpt?

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to create a sense of closeness and shared goals among the people listening

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What is the main message of this speech?

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We must honor the dead by ensuring that this nation endures and has a new birth of freedom.

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What is the meaning of the word "dedicated" in the excerpt: "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."

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committed or devoted to a task

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To whom or what does the word "they" in the second sentence refer?

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the brave men

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What was Lincoln’s primary purpose for delivering the Gettysburg Address?

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to dedicate a cemetery

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What is the “unfinished work” to which Lincoln refers in line 16?

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preservation of the nation

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What does Lincoln mean when he says, “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here” (lines 13–15)?

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Actions are more important than words.