Harold Kennington
The Gettysburg Address 19th January 1863
Lincoln Himself
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He was born in a one room long cabin in Kentucky.
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At the age of twenty-four he was elected to the Illinois General Assembly.
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Lincoln was elected to the US House of Representatives to the Whig Party in
1846.
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Spoke against the Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Spoke against the Dread Scott decision in 1857
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He was elected the 16Th President of the United States
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He issued the Emancipation Proclamation which freed all slaves on January 1ST
1863.
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Delivered the Gettysburg Address for people of the present time and the future.
Main Points
Equality Is Meant For All Mankind
 “Conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created
equal.” Lincoln took from the Declaration of Independence and hinted that the
Civil War was not just about the union, but also to bring equality to all citizens.
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The Gettysburg address heightens the soldiers, and that their deaths did not go in
vain. “The word will little note nor long remember what we say here but it can
never forget what they did here.”
A Fight For The Cause
 “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 these dead shall not have died in vain.”
Lincoln believed that the present and the future generations must defend the
union.
The Nation Is Worth Fighting For
 “That the union is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”
This explains that Americans from now on should be proud and defend the union.
That the people make it up, and should run the government.