Reading #3 - Conclusion

In his conclusion, Lincoln tries to explain once

again why the Civil War is important to the nation

and what the Union is fighting to protect

We here highly resolve that these dead shall

not have 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.

In Lincoln's view, what result would mean that the

soldiers who died at Gettysburg did not die in

vain?

the Civil War ending with no winner

the Union winning the Civil War

the war ending peacefully with a Confederate

victory

In this reading

Resolve means "declare with determination"

DONE

In vain means "for nothing"

Perish means "be destroyed"

The Union winning the Civil War

Explanation:

President Lincoln in that excerpt is saying that if the war was to be lost then the men and women who died in the civil war defending a type of governance that was of, by and for the people and guaranteed freedom for humans will have died in vain.

Whilst there were multiple reasons for the Civil War, the most popular one was that of slavery. The Confederacy did not want to give it up and the Union wanted to abolish it.

President Lincoln as the leader of the Union is therefore stating that if the Union did not win, the freedom that they fought for would be crushed by the Confederacy and perish from the world and therefore would have been in vain.

b)

it created free trade throughout the colonial territories.

on the morning of  july 21,  1861, general mcdowell ordered the  unionarmy to attack. it was on this hill that  confederate  colonel thomas jackson and his forces held back theunion  troops.