Question 1

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.

Accepted Answer

The word 'score' means 20. So Four score and seven totals 87 years. The Gettysburg Address was delivered in 1863.  Founding Fathers who wrote the Constitution for the new nation of the United States. Lincoln meant that this nation should  give freedom to all people including the slaves.

Question 2

NOW WE ARE ENGAGED IN A GREAT CIVIL WAR, TESTING WHETHER THAT NATION SO CONCEIVED AND SO DEDICATED, CAN LONG ENDURE.

Accepted Answer

Lincoln was inferring about the civil war the nation was fighting and if the nation could endure
and survive this war.

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

The great battlefield is where the Battle of Gettysburg was fought, the reason for the ceremony.
Lincoln is talking about the men who lost their lives in this battle and this ceremony was in honor of  men who died and that the ceremony was the right thing to do to honor them.

Question 4

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.

Accepted Answer

President Lincoln is saying that the living and this ceremony cannot equal the sacrifice of the dead.

Question 5

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

Accepted Answer

President Lincoln is saying the words spoken at the ceremony may not be remembered in the future but the actions of the dead would not be forgotten

Question 6

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so increased devotion.

Accepted Answer

President Lincoln is saying the honored dead fought and died  for the cause, but it was the responsibility of those still living to make sure they did not die in vain

Question 7

so that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion

Accepted Answer

President Lincoln is saying that the living should continue to fight  harder for the causes of the Civil War as an act of devotion to those who sacrificed their lives

Question 8

that we here highly resolve  - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.that these dead shall not have died in vain

Accepted Answer

President Lincoln is talking about a new kind of freedom for the nation, guided by God so the ones who sacrificed their lives did not die in vain

Question 9

and that government of the people, by the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Accepted Answer

President Lincoln is stating what a true democracy is under the Constitution. “We the People….”and that the nation should always be free.

Question 10

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.

Accepted Answer

President Lincoln is saying the honored dead fought and died  for the cause, but it was the responsibility of those still living to make sure they did not die in vain

8th ELA Gettysburg

8th MEANING OF GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

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