Question

Excerpt 1: Gettysburg Address (Abraham Lincoln, 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.
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.
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work … 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.”

Question
What is Lincoln’s main point in the Gettysburg Address?(1 point)
Responses

The Civil War is a punishment for past mistakes
The Civil War is a punishment for past mistakes

The nation must keep fighting for freedom and equality
The nation must keep fighting for freedom and equality

The battlefield should become a memorial park
The battlefield should become a memorial park

Only the soldiers who died can honor the nation
Only the soldiers who died can honor the nation

Answer 1

The nation must keep fighting for freedom and equality.