Assignment Due 12/3: Choose a passage from the Gettysburg Address or the Second Inaugural Address. Write out the passage and interpret its meaning and explain why you chose it.
The Passage I chose is from Lincolns Gettysburg Address.
"Fourscore 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."
What I think this passage means to me is that when the four fathers of our country founded this new land they wanted to build a foundation for future generations that would be built on the foundation of equal rights and freedoms for anyone willing to live in the new land. However now we are in a war and a war against our own brothers in order to keep alive the foundation this country was built on watch it fall in battle
I chose this excerpt from the Gettysburg Address because it states in only a few lines what the civil war was about we started out one way but people decided along the way that it was alright to take these privileges away and only keep them for ourselves but that goes entirely against what this country started on and now this war will be the model to see if country's of freedom can exist or if they were meant to fail.
I agree with you. This passage describes the vision that our forefathers had of a free nation where all people were created equal for future generations to live freely regardless of race or religion.
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