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Question: In The Gettysburg Address, what did President Lincoln mean when he spoke of "the great task remaining before us... that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom"?

Question: In The Gettysburg Address, what did President Lincoln mean when he spoke of "the great task remaining before us... that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom"?

Social Psychology (10th Edition)
Social Psychology (10th Edition)
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Author:Elliot Aronson, Timothy D. Wilson, Robin M. Akert, Samuel R. Sommers
Publisher:Elliot Aronson, Timothy D. Wilson, Robin M. Akert, Samuel R. Sommers
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Instructions: Your answer must be a minimum of 500 words in length. Base your answer on the video and the lecture in class. on November 14, 2022, that relates to Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (as well as the Address itself). Do not use any other sources. Remember to proofread your work carefully and make sure that your name is at the top of the page. Make sure you provide a word count. Do not provide a cover sheet. You must provide me with a hard copy of this assignment (I am old and do not like to mark electronically). Please DOUBLE SPACE your work. Question: In The Gettysburg Address, what did President Lincoln mean when he spoke of "the great task remaining before us... that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom"? 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. Abraham Lincoln November 19, 1863
Transcribed Image Text:Instructions: Your answer must be a minimum of 500 words in length. Base your answer on the video and the lecture in class. on November 14, 2022, that relates to Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (as well as the Address itself). Do not use any other sources. Remember to proofread your work carefully and make sure that your name is at the top of the page. Make sure you provide a word count. Do not provide a cover sheet. You must provide me with a hard copy of this assignment (I am old and do not like to mark electronically). Please DOUBLE SPACE your work. Question: In The Gettysburg Address, what did President Lincoln mean when he spoke of "the great task remaining before us... that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom"? 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. Abraham Lincoln November 19, 1863
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