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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.
The correct answer is b) articles of confederation
The articles did not deal with human rights and welfare because they were mostly about establishing a government to begin with. When things such as state and individual rights started popping up, they abandoned it and adopted the US constitution with the bill of rights.
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Most Presidents use their Inaugural address to present their vision of America and to set forth their goals for the nation.
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They changed the Act so that quartering in private houses - the reason for the protests - was no longer a possibility.
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The lacish letters were discovered in 1935 (January/February). They were written on clay and recorded the defence of an army officer who had read (or not read them). They were written about the time of the seige conducted by Nebuchadnezzar. Their importance is not Biblical, but they are a comment on one aspect of life around that time (almost 600 BC)
