About Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (his famous speech)?

Question

Why is his speech often called as 'address'? And why is Gettysburg chosen to be his speech's name? What does 'address' in this context mean? E.g ...Lincoln's address etc... Thank u in advance

Answer 1

"Address" is another name for a speech; you are "addressing" the crowd when you are speaking to them.

The speech was given at Gettysburg, site of a famous Civil War battle, where a cemetery was being dedicated. That's why Lincoln said:

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

He was referring to the war dead buried in the cemetery.

Answer 2

Are we doing your homework or something. Honestly I have to question you not giving any detail and yet asking WHY it was Gettysburg that was chosen. Gettysburg was a 3 day battle and one of the bloodiest. It is often referred to as the turning point of the Civil War. It was the second time the Confederates attempted to attack Northern soil. It was also the last. That is likely why it is the turning point. Beyond the South being pretty much put away at that point(if you knew the war you would understand). As to the address as was said he addressed the crowd. He spoke to them, they were his audience.

Answer 3

In this context, address is a verb. To address someone is to give a speech.. he gave this speech in Gettysburg, therefore it is the Gettysburg Address.

Answer 4

Lincoln gave a short "address" to the public, the major speaker was someone else no one remembers today- he gave a speech of over an hour.

Answer 5

Do you have a clue what the address is all about ?

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.
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.

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. 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.