The Gettysburg Address - Full Text and Analysis (KA)

A score = _________ years

"Four score and seven years ago" refers to

• 1776, the year the U.S declared its independence from England

• 1783, the end of the American Revolution

• 1789, George Washington's inauguration

• 1776, the year the U.S. declared its independence from France

Are you surprised that the country was at war with itself within 87 years of its creation?

• Yes

• No

Lincoln is reminding everyone that the country was founded on the principles of

• equality and liberty

• free speech and rights to bear arms

• free enterprise and capitalism

• liberty and the right to own slaves

If the union fails it will prove to the world. . .

• that monarchy is the best form of government

• that democracy can't work

• that socialism is the answer

• that England needs to take over again

The speech changed people's perceptions from these United States to...

• the United States

• the USA

• these United States of America

• America

Why did Lincoln say, "It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this"?

• Many people thought the cemetery was improper

• Many people thought it was a political move for him

• Many people thought that Edward Everett shouldn't be there

What is ironic about this part, "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..."?

• The speech was soon forgotten

• The speech is considered one of the greatest of all time

• The world didn't notice or care about the speech

The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

Lincoln meant...

• He says this is not about us, it's about the soldiers who have sacrificed. They have already consecrated the cemetery with their blood and their lives.

• Everett's speech was very political, saying this was a great battle, we have to remember that the Confederates are our enemies.

• The forces of the United States are trying to achieve a united nation, not a united set of states.

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.

Lincoln means...

• The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here but it can never forget what they did here.

• We must honor their sacrifice for the experiment of liberty and equality by taking renewed dedication to that cause. Americans must be renewed in their commitment to the mission of continuing democracy, continuing equality and continuing to fight for a United States of America.

• The seeds of the Civil War were really with the United States at its creation, that there's an essential contradiction in the United States as it was born.