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(i) First, it is important to remember the context. America was in the midst of a bloody civil war. Union troops had only recently defeated Confederate troops at the Battle of Gettysburg. It was a the turning point in the war. The stated purpose of Lincoln’s speech was to dedicate a plot of land that would become Soldier’s National Cemetery. However, Lincoln realized that he also had to inspire the people to continue the fight.
Below is the text of the Gettysburg Address, interspersed with my thoughts on what made it so memorable.
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.
“Four score and seven” is much more poetic, much more elegant, much more noble than “Eighty-seven”. The United States had won its freedom from Britain 87 years earlier, embarking on the “Great Experiment”.
(ii) The Emancipation Proclamation and Thirteenth Amendment brought about by the Civil War were important milestones in the long process of ending legal slavery in the United States. This essay describes the development of those documents through various drafts by Lincoln and others and shows both the evolution of Abraham Lincoln’s thinking and his efforts to operate within the constitutional boundaries of the presidency.
Since these 2 acts allowed citizens of the US to be tossed out of the country, or locked up, without due process, political opposition came into play, and individuals that could have made a good contributions to the USA were forced out of the country.
1. The idea of America expanded from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean is known as Manifest Destiny. This idea shaped the federal governments policy for almost the entire 19th century.
2. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a law that allowed citizens to vote on slavery. This was introduced by Stephen Douglas .
3. Runaway slaves were brought back to their owners thanks to the Fugitive slave law.
4. The Dred Scott case concluded that slaves were not people, they were property. The lead judge in the case was Roger Taney .
5. Uncle Tom's Cabin was a famous book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
6. Robert E. Lee was the person who captured John Brown.
7. Frederick Douglass was a leading abolitionist in American society.
Answer: D. reincarnation and enlightenment
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