The Gettysburq Address *Fourscore and seven rears 3g0 our fathers brought forth on this continent: new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are
Now
engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or
nation
portion of that field as. final resting-place for those who here
conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on great battlefield of that war. We have:
dedicate :
their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we
cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The
world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It l for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who
fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before -that from these honored dead we take increased
devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall
died in vain, that this nation under
God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.*
What is the best summary of the speech's last sentence? (5 points)
• The founders of the nation established a government that was based on equality.
The government of the nation will surely fall unless the next battle in the war is won.
The revolution in the country has the noble goal of installing new and fairer government
© The people must not give UP. they must win the
ot those who have died for the cause.