Abraham Lincoln " Four score and seven years ago our forefathers brought forth on this continent a new nation...
We are engaged in a great civil war testing wether than nation or any other nation so concieved and so dedicated can long endure.
We here highly resolve that... this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and this government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth.
What did lincoln mean in his speech?
a. the confederate army cannot endure much long after this great victory.
b. there should be a new nation without slavery.
c.the war has become a revolutionary struggle and we must make sure it doesn't get out of hand.
2007-10-01 15:54:15 · 5 answers · asked by Koki K 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
d. none of the above.
2007-10-01 15:58:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That the naton which was created those many years ago should continue to exist. A nation of states in a grand union.
His address was in connection with the establishment of a graveyard for those who fell in the Battle of Gettysburg. And many of the ideas he expressed were taken from a speech made by the Greek General Pericles at the dedication of an Athenian burial ground some five hundred years before the birth of Christ. Lincoln, being a well-read man, borrowed ideas from others.
2007-10-01 16:03:05 · answer #2 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have to go with Muttlove it's none of the answers there.
He isn't really talking about slavery, that was still such a hotbutton issue that he wouldn't have brought that up.
If it was a, that would have been more encouraging news, since the audience was a northern audience, but he's talking about an increased measure of devotion, to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. That isn't encouragement that the enemy is going to give up, its more a caution that we have to work harder.
As to a revolutionary struggle, the secesh was already calling it the revolution of 1860, and if the dead at Antietam and Gettysburg hadn't gotten the message across that it was out of hand, we weren't listening.
2007-10-01 16:40:21 · answer #3 · answered by william_byrnes2000 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I feel that he was trying to rebuild morale. If you read the whole speech ( http://www.visit-gettysburg.com/the-gettysburg-address-text.html ), you see that he was talking about the men who died at Gettysburg, a fitting topic since Lincoln was there to dedicate the cemetery. He was reminding people why they needed to keep fighting to preserve the vision of the founding fathers.
2007-10-04 04:16:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello Koki K.
The answer is C.
Regards,
Lenny.
2007-10-01 16:00:44 · answer #5 · answered by Lenny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋