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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
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Actually, it is unlikely that Henry uttered those precise words. The phrase was first attributed to him in 1816, more than 40 years after the revolution. Regardless, Henry’s speech encouraged Virginia legislators to provide troops to the Revolutionary War effort, helping to create the Continental Army less than three months later. After the revolution, Henry became the first governor of the state of Virginia.
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The French and Indian War altered the relationship between Britain and its American colonies because the war enabled Britain to be more "active" in colonial political and economic affairs. This happened by imposing regulations and levying taxes unfairly on the colonies, which caused the colonists to change their ideology from toleration to resentment toward Britain.
After the civil war, much of the ownership for land was unattainable for free slaves due to the government opposing the idea. Instead most African slaves had to become sharecroppers on plantations where they had previously been slaves.
