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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 battle-field 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 can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not 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.

Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863

What principle about America does Lincoln emphasize in this passage? Use evidence from the source to support your answer.

Lesson Demo- Source Analysis

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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.

Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863

What principle about America does Lincoln emphasize in this passage? Use evidence from the source to support your answer.

"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.

That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be, in good faith, represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such State shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State, and the people thereof, are not then in rebellion against the United States."

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

January 1, 1863

Why was the Emancipation Proclamation significant to the Civil War? Use evidence from the source in your answer.

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

What does this passage suggest about how the United States was changing its definition of freedom and equality after the Civil War? Use evidence from the passage to support your answer.

Lesson Demo- Source Analysis

What principle about America does Lincoln emphasize in this passage? Use evidence from the source to support your answer.

Lesson Demo- Source Analysis

What principle about America does Lincoln emphasize in this passage? Use evidence from the source to support your answer.

Why was the Emancipation Proclamation significant to the Civil War? Use evidence from the source in your answer.

What does this passage suggest about how the United States was changing its definition of freedom and equality after the Civil War? Use evidence from the passage to support your answer.

Based on these sources, how did the Civil War and Reconstruction change the meaning of freedom and equality in America?

Why was the Emancipation Proclamation significant to the Civil War? Use evidence from the source in your answer.

What does this passage suggest about how the United States was changing its definition of freedom and equality after the Civil War? Use evidence from the passage to support your answer.

Based on these sources, how did the Civil War and Reconstruction change the meaning of freedom and equality in America?