Gettysburg Address

Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address at the ceremony to dedicate the military cemetery there.

He went to give a speech during the dedication of the cemetery under construction about 3 months after the battle.

About 300,000 soldiers burried at the battle of gettysburg

Four score and seven years ago isn't the "name" of a famous speech, it is the first line of the Gettysburg Address, spoken by Abraham Lincoln during the civil war. ---- That would be the begging of the Getsysbrug Address

Lincoln states that "the world will little note nor long remember what we say here..." but the opposite was true. His short address inspired the war-weary North with its succinct summation of the need to win the war and keep the republic intact.

The Gettysburg address was written to dedicate a cemetery to those who had lost their lives fighting for what they believed in (North) Lincoln wanted to tell the soldiers (the one who weren't dead) to win this war for the fallen victims of the bloodiest convict in American history.

On the afternoon of Thursday, November 18, 1863, 16th U.S. President Abraham Lincoln [February 12, 1809-April 15, 1865] gave the Gettysburg Address. He was participating in the dedication ceremonies for the Soldiers' National Cemetery at the Pennsylvania town of the same name. On July 1-3 of that same year, the town had been the scene of an important Union victory over the Confederate forces during the War between the States.

They both made a huge diffrence for many people.

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The crowd is there to remember and honor the efforts of those who died during the Battle of Gettysburg. To quote: "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."

That so many of us would memorize his two minute speech and quote it often.

...use common sense.

The immediate purpose was to dedicate the military cemetery at Gettysburg in honor of the sacrifice made by those who died defending the Union. The ultimate purpose was to inspire a war-weary civilian population who was losing its resolve to "stay the course" and not give in to pressure to bring about a negotiated peace settlement that would end the war by allowing secession.

Several months after the Battle of Gettysburg, President Lincoln gave the speech that is now called the Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln, president of the Union (the northern states), had problems with various pressure groups who wanted the war, which had killed 250,00 of America's young people, to end, even at the cost of giving in to Confederate demands. The Gettysburg address, given while the war was still raging, served to bolster the spirits of the north by focussing on the ultimate goals.

The mood of this speech is sad because it is the dedication of the Soldiers' at National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg. so in other words this speech is referring to the people that died in the battle.

About 15,000 people were said to have attended the Gettysburg Address. This population consisted of soldiers, families, and several politicians.

It basically honored the dead solidiers who fought in the battle of Gettysburg and unified the Northerners

I think that Abraham Lincoln says that human equality should be proven because the world isn't fair and we should always think about those who were slaves before.

Abraham Lincoln's main message is that the people of the North must be willing to continue the war until the rebellious states returned to the entire union of states known as the United States of America. Any result that formed two countries and or allowed the continuance of the institution of slavery would be unacceptable.

The Address is a relatively short and concise speech, lasting no longer than three minutes. Given how much work it took to set up a camera in the 1860s (positioning, focus, exposure time), the speech would have been over before anyone had a chance to take a photo.

Because in just over two minutes, Lincoln invoked the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence and redefined the Civil War as a struggle not merely for the Union, but as "a new birth of freedom" that would bring true equality to all of its citizens, and that would also create a unified nation in which states' rightswere no longer dominant.

If "the people" is taken to mean the general populace, then it would be democracy. Otherwise, government ruled by "the" people could be any of various oligarchies.

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was given in November of 1863. The dedication of the cemetery was the only thing going on at the time. The Battle of Gettysburg took place months before, 1-4 July 1863.

Many believed Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was a disappointment immediately after he delivered it, because the people believed that the President spoke to short to address the full magnitude of the Battle of Gettysburg. It took a while for most people to realize that Lincoln's words were actually incredibly well said, and that they actually did do justice to the Battle. As another speaker who spoke at the ceremony told Lincoln afterwords, "You've summed up in two minutes what I said in two hours and to ten times the effect."