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Oh Okay A pushers second to here in the Gettysburg

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Address Questions Ah here's the speech There's a Paragraph four

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score and seven minutes ago we read it OK In

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giving the Gettysburg Address President Abraham Lincoln's main goal was

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to do what While giving a speech at the official

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dedication ceremony of the National Cemetery of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania

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was a great opportunity for President Lincoln to address the

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American people about the meaning of the Civil war In

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the most celebrated address in American history the president redefined

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the significance of the war from being a struggle to

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preserve the union to a struggle to preserve the democratic

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principles that the nation was founded upon With his powerful

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words the president was trying to unify the American people

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behind a national identity based on the Democratic principles in

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the Declaration of Independence right the seventeen seventy six doc

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right answer here is D to reunify the country While

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President Lincoln wasn't trying to score national acclaim get rid

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of a key even humbly said the world will little

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note nor long Remember what we say here Instead the

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Lincoln speeches engraved in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D

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C And the Gettysburg Address is a pillar of American

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identity The president wasn't promoting the abolition of slavery directly

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anyway in this speech but he was reminding American citizens

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about the democratic principles the country was built upon It

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wasn't tryingto win the war either not from the speech

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Rather he delivered an inspiring speech about reunifying the national

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identity of all American people So that's it answers the 00:01:37.94 --> [endTime] unified country You go it

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