Answer:
(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 Protestant threat
Teresa of Avila
the Council of Trent
the Bible as the sole source of truth
salvation through faith alone
Church reform
Catholic reformation refers to the period when catholicism started to resurface as a response for protestant reformation.The reformation effort was consisted of 5 major elements and started in the year of 1545 and ended in the year of 1648 after thirty years of war.
It showed everyone inventions were imporant, it also made work so much easier instead of having to carry things, you could just use the pulley which was less strain on the human body and less chance someone could get hurt.
The answer is the first wave of immigration of North
Americans. The first part of a wave of immigration has occurred in the
nineteenth century which falls on the year 1880’s up until the 1920’s. The
first wave occurred when the irish and germans have dominated the north
americans.
