Historical speech

Historical speech:

The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln

Author: Pievani Aurora

Final Project

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Index

01. Speech

02. Abraham Lincoln

02. life

03. Death

04. American Civil War

04. Historical contex

06. Script

05. Historical Background

“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..."

02. Abraham Lincoln

His leadership during the Civil War, and his leading role in the struggle for the abolition of slavery, made him one of the most admired and respected presidents in American history.

Political life:

Political program:

• preserving the Union
• abolishing slavery
• restoring constitutional order.

• law studies
• Illinois State Legislature in 1846
• elected to the United States House of Representatives
• President of the United States on November 6, 1860

03. Death

• was committed on April 14, 1865, Good Friday

when and where?

• "Our American Cousin" at Ford’s Theatre in Washington.
• final stages of the American Civil War, five days after the surrender of Confederate troops.

• it was planned and conducted by actor John Wilkes Booth

who?

They hoped to wound the Union government to death. The remaining part of the conspiracy failed.

04. Historical contex

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR:

• faced the threat of secession and slavery
• the Southern states formed the Confederacy and attacked Fort Sumter in 1861

• victory in the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln, who opposed the expansion of slavery into the Western territories.

• central cause : the dispute over whether slavery would be allowed to expand into the Western territories

• Seven southern slave states responded to Lincoln’s victory by separating from the United States and forming the Confederacy.

• Lincoln developed a vision for rebuilding the Union.
• with the aim of healing the wounds of war and restoring stability in the country.

05. Historical Background

where and when?

• After the Battle of Gettysburg from July 1 to July 3, 1863,
• during a ceremony was held at Gettysburg National Cemetery, where the fallen soldiers were buriedon November 19, 1863

This brief but powerful speech symbolizes the importance of unity and freedom in the struggle to preserve the Union.

Speech:

“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.”

06. Script

consisted of only 272 words

"Four score and seven years ago..."

• Lincoln calls to mind the fundamental principles of the Declaration of Independence and the idea of a nation founded on freedom and equality.

• to unite a country torn apart by civil war
• to commit to the completion of the work begun by the Founding Fathers.

meaning:

Lincoln’s speech at Gettysburg embodied the idea that the Union was an indivisible entity, in which every man had the right to freedom and equality.

Thank youfor your attention

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