What was the effect of the Gettysburg address?

Answer 1

The Gettysburg Address was written to free slaves and because Abraham Lincoln wanted to create all men equal. -this is actually wrong. the Gettysburg Address had nothing to do with the emancipation proclamation... instead the Gettysburg address turned the war from being a struggle for the north into a view as " the birth of a new freedom"

Answer 2

The US Civil War Battle of Gettysburg was a three day battle and was one of the most important ones in the war. Union forces under Major General Meade defeated General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. The end result was Lee's reluctance to cross the Potomac River again with any sizable force.

Answer 3

What can be said about the Gettysburg Address other than it was the catalyst for what the nation that we live in today became. This two minute speech delivered by President Abraham Lincoln was a definition of the idea that is the United States of America. He spoke of the founding fathers intention that this nation would be a place where "all men were created equal". This became the rally cry for the last three years of the War. Lincoln wanted to press the point that the institution of slavery was something that went against the idea that was the United States. He also spoke of a "new birth of freedom". Again, here Lincoln is pressing the point that slavery must be eliminated if the country was to survive. How does the Address affect us today? This is a great question. A great scholar of the Civil War, Shelby Foote, said that "before the Civil War, people referred to the United States as the United States ... after the Civil War they referred to it as the United States is". That is what the Civil War did for us today. It was the crossroads of our being. The Civil War made our nation one. We are no longer thought of as a collection of states, we are one nation of peoples. The Civil War was the real creation of our nation. The Declaration of Independence separated us from England, and the Constitution set up a federal government, but the Civil War tested everything that those documents meant. It solidified our place in the world as a sovereign nation to be respected and treated as all other nations. Prior to the Civil War our nation was viewed by the rest of the world as a loose collection of states, that was weak and not to be taken seriously. The Gettysburg Address asks if we were capable of being that nation that our founding fathers intended it to be. Lincoln understood that this War would determine whether or not the idea of the United States could survive, or as he stated.."perish from the earth". 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.

Answer 4

Lincoln revitalized a war-weary North to give them hope that the end of he war was in sight and that the war aims were worth the sacrifice. It shifted the pretext of the war from Preserving the Union, to extending the Rights of Freedom to all.

Answer 5

The Gettysburg Address was to convince Northerners who were tired of the war to stay the course. He also hinted of a nation which he meant forgiving the South for the war and bringing freedom to slaves.

Answer 6

The North praised Lincoln immediately for his speech. The Gettysburg address encouraged troops to move forward in the war against the confederacy.

Answer 7

the effect that the Gettysburg Address had on the U.S ago was that it taught the U.S that we should be one nation

Answer 8

it made people have the Cold war and people lost alot of jobs...

Answer 9

by new birth of freedom