http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/cwar-pix/address-1.jpgCivics and History: Making the Connection

The words of the Gettysburg Address have been printed below. As you listen to the speech, identify ideas that relate to History and Civics in the right column

The Gettysburg Address

Related Civics and Historical Concepts

Four score and seven years ago our fathers

brought forth on 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 battlefield of that war. We have come

to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final

resting place for those who here gave 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 and 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 is 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 us—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 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.


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