English 3 Vocabulary 2.03

Gettysburg Address was to memorialized the Union dead and highlighted the _______________ power of their sacrifice.

• Fundamental 

• redemptive

• undermining

• commemorate

The civil war was weakening the __________ principles upon which their country had been founded

• fundamental

• hypocritical

• distinct

• consecrated

This demonstrates Lincoln's purpose by him stating the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have _____________it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

• Consecrated

• Sacrificed

• Undermined

• endured

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was intended to teach the people of the American colonies about how the war was undermining the _____ values of the United States.

• Core

• Secretive
  

• Righteous

• Ambiguous

The purpose of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was to honor the soldiers who had died in the Battle of Gettysburg and to emphasize the importance of ------------------the Union.

• preserving

• highlighting

• reuniting

• detracting

This reinforces his purpose of preserving the Union and ensuring that the democratic government established by the people will -----------------.

• endure

• consecrate

• commemorate

• seem

He emphasized the importance of the _______________ on which the nation was founded

• principles

• apparitions

• façade

• assumptions

This statement _______________ freedom to all slaves from that moment on, forever. Any state or person that didn't comply would be in rebellion against the United States

• proclaimed

• reinforces

• consecrated

• intended 

Lincoln's purpose was to ____________ a new national cemetery at Gettysburg during the American Civil War.

• commemorate

• consecrate

• undermine

• reunite

In the Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln, his purpose for this speech was to persuade the North to keep fighting to___________ the union.

• preserve

• commemorate

• undermine

• obscure