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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 answer is: B. becoming overly involved with foreign politics.
In his farewell address letter published in 1796, U.S. president George Washington advises Americans against the excessive engagement in sectionalism, political parties, and becoming too attached to any foreign nation. In that matter, he is cautious about the political uncertainty Americans they must evade if they mean to keep their legitimate values.
Federal bureaucracy<span> refers to the organization of government offices that implement public policy. Highly complex societies require </span>federal bureaucracy<span> to manage public programs and ensure the enforcement of legislation. so the </span><span>constitution makes the president the chief administrator of the federal government</span>
This is in fact not true, federal spending on defense in the late 1900s specifically the 1990s was in a decline from previous years when spending on the Cold War was very high. However, in the early 2000s defense spending increased dramatically with the introduction of the War on Terror and also the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
