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01 Assignment

In the lesson, you explored the process of critically reading primary documents to learn about U. history. Think about the exercises in the lesson where you were asked to find the meaning in the Declaration of Independence and the Preamble to the Constitution.

Use this knowledge to analyze a historical document and complete the written assignment below.

The Gettysburg Address (1863)

Part 1

Read the passage below. Underline words and phrases that you feel are important to understanding the document. In the spaces provided, explain how your selections help you understand the meaning and purpose of each paragraph.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

EXPLANATION:

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. 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. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

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But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate — we cannot consecrate — we cannot hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did 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. 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 — that 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.

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Part 2

Answer the question below in a well-developed paragraph, using specific evidence from the text.

What was Lincoln's purpose in writing the Gettysburg Address?

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01.01 Assignment

In the lesson, you explored the process of critically reading primary documents to learn about

U.S. history. Think about the exercises in the lesson where you were asked to find the meaning

in the Declaration of Independence and the Preamble to the Constitution.

Use this knowledge to analyze a historical document and complete the written assignment

below.

The Gettysburg Address (1863)

Part 1

Read the passage below. Underline words and phrases that you feel are important to

understanding the document. In the spaces provided, explain how your selections help you

understand the meaning and purpose of each paragraph.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this

continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the

proposition that all men are created equal.

EXPLANATION:

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or

any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met

on a great battle-field of that war. 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. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should

do this.

EXPLANATION:

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The Gettysburg Address (1863)

Part 1

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Part 2