Read the excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg
What is Lincoln's purpose in the excerpt?
Address.
Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought
O to recall the names of famous national leadei
forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in
O to suggest the need for a new government
liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are
© to emphasize the nation's beliefs and ideals
created equal.
O to demand an end to the Civil War
Now we are
engaged in a great civil war. testing
whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so
dedicated.. can long endure