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"The Gettysburg Address"
by Abraham Lincoln

Gettysburg address delivered at Gettysburg Pa. Nov. 19th, 1863. [n. p. n. d.].

Gettysburg Address

Dettysburg Address

Nov. 19th 1863.

“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 battlefield 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 cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot 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."



The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln

Question
Use the passages to answer the question.

LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL

Credit Line: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” April 16, 1963. The Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr.

How do the purposes of the two texts compare?

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Responses

Both texts address a request made by others while honoring the dead.
Both texts address a request made by others while honoring the dead.

Lincoln criticizes his audience while King calls for unity.
Lincoln criticizes his audience while King calls for unity.

King addresses a request made by others while Lincoln honors the dead.
King addresses a request made by others while Lincoln honors the dead.

King wants to address issues of equality in the United States while Lincoln is more concerned with honoring the dead.

Answer 1

The best response to compare the purposes of the two texts is:

**King wants to address issues of equality in the United States while Lincoln is more concerned with honoring the dead.**

This response accurately reflects the differing focuses of the two texts: Lincoln's Gettysburg Address primarily honors those who died in the Civil War and emphasizes national unity and dedication to the principles of freedom and equality, whereas King's Letter from Birmingham Jail addresses urgent issues of civil rights and systemic injustice, advocating for equality and social change.