Gettysburg Address ACC

Why did people gather in Gettysburg on Nov. 19, 1863? 

• To abolish slavery
• To dedicate a national cemetery 
• To encourage the Confederacy to rejoin the Union

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Lincoln said our country was conceived in liberty.  What did he mean? 

• Founded for justice
• Founded for fairness
• Founded for freedom

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What was so special about "four score and seven years ago" mentioned in this speech?

• The first colonists settled America
• America was discovered by Christopher Columbus
• The Declaration of Independence was written and America gained its freedom from Great Britain

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What does perish mean?

• continue

• liberate

• die

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In the Gettysburg Address, which set of values does Abraham Lincoln most clearly associate with the nation he leads?

• freedom and equality

• creativity and ingenuity

• prosperity and opportunity

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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation,

•  27 years ago some people made a new country that brought us together 
• 87 years ago some people made a new country that brought us together
• 27 years ago our relatives made a new country that brought us together

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What text from the Gettysburg Address is referring to the Constitution?

• government of the people, by the people, for the people
• four score and seven years ago
• from these honored dead we take increased devotion

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Who wrote the Gettysburg Address?

• Thomas Jefferson

• Abraham Lincoln

• Thomas Paine

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Liberty

• created from; born out of
• a state of freedom
• the right thing to do

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Proposition

• consuming all of one's time and energy
• a state of freedom
• and idea

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