Gettysburg Address

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation..."

--Which statement below best reflects this part of the Gettysburg Address?

• 27 years ago some people made a new country that brought us together.

• 87 years ago some people made a new country that brought us together.

• 27 years ago our relatives made a new country that brought us together.

"...and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

--Which statement below best reflects this part of the Gettysburg Address?

• and made sure the song was the same as all others

• and a belief that all people should be treated the same.

• and written to make sure that everyone could buy the same stuff.

"We are met on a great battlefield of that war..."

--Which statement below best reflects this part of the Gettysburg Address?

• People are coming to meet us here.

• We are standing on an important battlefield of that war.

• People are coming to fight with us here.

"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."

--Which statement below best reflects this part of the Gettysburg Address?

• We have come to say that part of this field is holy because it is a final resting place for those who died here so that our country can continue to exist

• We have come here to create a place where soldiers can rest because they fought so hard for our country.

"But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract."

--Which statement below best reflects this part of the Gettysburg Address?

• But in the bigger picture, we cannot make this place holy because the men who died here already did.

• But in the bigger picture we cannot build here because people died

  here and it would be disrespectful.

• But in a larger sense, we should not honor people who fight in wars.

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

--Which statement below best reflects this part of the Gettysburg Address?

• The world doesn’t care about this place but the men who fought here will always remember.

• People won’t remember this ceremony but they will remember

  the men who fought and died 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."

--Which statement below best reflects this part of the Gettysburg Address?

• We need to dedicate this cemetery and make it look nice to honor these men.

• We who are still alive need to promise to continue to fight for the ideas that these men died for.

"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."

--Which statement below best reflects this part of the Gettysburg Address?

• We have to promise to make this cemetery nice and remember

  these men.

• We need to promise that we will work on the great job ahead of us--to remember the dead we will increase our effort to save the ideas that they died for.

"...that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain..."

--Which statement below best reflects this part of the Gettysburg Address?

• that we promise that the men who died here died for a good reason

• that we find out if the dead died terrible deaths

• that we make sure other people don’t die here

"...that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom..."

--Which statement below best reflects this part of the Gettysburg Address?

• that our country, under God’s blessing, shall have a new form of government

• that our country, under God’s blessing, shall be reborn in freedom

• that we will become a really religious country