2. Abraham Lincoln He was born on February 12, 1809 in Hodgenville Kentucky. He is the 16 th President of the United States of America He was in office from March 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865.

3. Lincoln was president when the war broke out Since he was president he took control of the Union Lincolns major goal was to get rid of slavery and free slaves After the war was over Lincoln and his wife Marry Todd Lincoln were watching a play at ford theater when a confederate spy John Wilkes Booth came in and shot him in the head. The Civil War

4. The Gettysburg Address It is one of the best known speeches in American history. He read is speech where the battle took place and the soldiers were buried. It occurred during the Civil war and four and a half months after the Union won the Battle of Gettysburg.

5. And the Gettysburg Address Fourscore 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.

6. “Four Score and Seven Years Ago” That phrase is one of the most known phrases in the United States A score is twenty years so four score and seven years ago means 87 years ago. What the first sentence means is that 87 years ago when our forefathers created a nation that stated all men are equal and the south is trying to disobey that by having slaves.

7. Side stepping death The speech occurred at graveyard where the battle was fought The speech was about the soldiers who gave the lives up for their country He replaces the violence with a vision a nation that is unified and committed to equality He says that where they are standing represents what struggles the soldiers dead or alive went through to protect our country and our rights

8. Repetition In the third paragraph he starts two sentences in a row by saying it is for us to be dedicated. He says we have to be dedicated to different things. In the first paragraph he brings in the constitution by saying all men are created equal. He brings the constituion back in again at the end by saying 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.”

9. Sources http://www.biography.com/people/abraham- lincoln-9382540 http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/s peeches/gettysburg.htm