Read the text of the gettysburg address delivered by president abraham
lincoln during the american civil war. which of the following best
summarizes this excerpt?
four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth,
upon this continent a new nation conceived in liberty, and
dedicated to the proposition that all men are created
equal
now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether
that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated
can long endure. we are met on a great battle field of that
war. we have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final
resting place for those who died here that the nation might
live. this we may in all propriety do. but, in a larger sense
we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can
not hallow this ground - the brave men living and dead.
who struggled here have hallowed it, far above our poor
power to add or detract. the world will little note nor long
remember what we say here; while it can never forget what
they did here
it is rather for us the living we here be dedicated to the
great task remaining before us – that from these honored
dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which
they here, gave the last full measure of devotion - that we
here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain
that the nation 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 6