Gettysburg Address Comprehension
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Gettysburg Address Comprehension
A Speech at Gettysburg
This passage retells the main ideas of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address in student-friendly language. It is not the speech’s exact wording. In 1863, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln travelled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. A major battle had taken place there, and many soldiers had died. People gathered to dedicate a national cemetery where fallen soldiers would be buried. Lincoln’s speech was brief. He began by recalling that the United States had been founded on the belief that all people are equal. He said the war was testing whether a nation built on that idea could survive. Lincoln honored the soldiers who had fought and died at Gettysburg. He explained that their actions had made the cemetery meaningful, even more than the words spoken at its dedication could. The living, he said, had a responsibility to continue the work for which the soldiers had given their lives. He hoped the country would experience a new birth of freedom. He wanted the government to remain one in which the people had a voice and which served the people. Lincoln ended by expressing the hope that the nation’s democratic government would endure.
Understand the passage
Use evidence from the passage when a question asks you to explain your thinking.
- To officially set a place aside for a special purpose
- To move a place to another state
- To close a place to visitors
- The living should continue the work of protecting equality and democracy.
- The country should forget the Civil War as quickly as possible.
- The cemetery was more important than the soldiers’ actions.
- People gathered to dedicate a cemetery.
- Lincoln recalled the country’s founding belief in equality.
- Lincoln expressed hope that democracy would endure.
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