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Explanation:
"Four score and seven years ago our father brought forth on this continent, a new nation..."
- Referred to American Revolution (1776)
"...conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to 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."
- The Civil War was a test of democracy.
"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."
-The reason for the ceremony
"...that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion..."
- The dead inspire the living.
"...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people..."
- Reaffirmed the idea of government by consent of the people
Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Savannah and Georgia. :)
William McKinley Republican
William J. Bryan Democrat-Populist
