Their lives improved because the material conditions in their surrounding improved. They had higher quality homes, higher levels of sanitation, working sewage, better access to medical care if need be, and many other things.
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"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
A consumer is someone who purchased goods or services. So if people stop buying that certain good or service. Then the economy can go down because there won't be as much money coming in as there was. And then if people buy more of a certain good or service then the economy will go up because they'll be receiving more money.
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