The passage is:
"The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom...."
The correct answer is C) explain the higher purpose of the civil war.
<em>According to the passage, Abraham Lincoln's chief purpose of the address was to explain the higher purpose of the civil war.
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The excerpt of the passage is from The Gettysburg Address, of Abraham Lincoln.
The Gettysburg Address is one of the most famous speeches of Abraham Lincoln. This speech was delivered at the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863.
The New England colonies were more focused on the Religion as the people who came there from Europe tended to be pilgrims (a Traveler who is on a journey to a holy place) and were more isolated and had very small farms just to provided for its owners. The middle colonies were mostly ports and industry as well as lumber, they built ships and the south was used for cash crops some examples of cash crops were cotton, tobacco, rice,wheat, rye, corn, barley,potatoes) and food and required the most slaves because it was the least populated