Question

Why does the speaker use the words "of the people, by the people, for the people" in this speech? (5 points)
To connect the contemporary struggle for freedom to the nation's founding
To suggest that the government owes the people more than just freedom
To imply that the contemporary struggle is against people who do not appreciate freedom

Answer 1

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 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. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot 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."

Answer 2

What main idea does the speaker want to persuade the listener to believe? (5 points)
Patriotic citizens have the right to rebel against government.
The justified struggle must be fought to success.

Answer 3

Why does the speaker begin and end the speech with similar ideas? (5 points)
Some listeners were likely to have missed the beginning of the speech.
He wanted to persuade the listener of their great importance through repetition.
The ideas stated at the beginning provided evidence for a surprising conclusion.
The speech was too long to be certain that listeners could remember the beginning.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

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Answer 6

hmm r u in k12

Answer 7

Please i need help i'm so bad with these questions. I just dont know how to pick which one and i don't understand the questions. No i'm not in k12... what is that?

Answer 8

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Answer 9

wat grade if u are in k12

Answer 10

I'm in grade 10th

Answer 11

ohh im going to 8th

Answer 12

so you can't help?

Answer 13

The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, one of the best-known in American history.[4] It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Abraham Lincoln's carefully crafted address, secondary to other presentations that day, came to be regarded as one of the greatest speeches in American history. In just over two minutes, Lincoln reiterated the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence[5] and proclaimed the Civil War as a struggle for the preservation of the Union sundered by the secession crisis,[6] with "a new birth of freedom",[7] that would bring true equality[8] to all of its citizens.[8] Lincoln also redefined the Civil War as a struggle not just for the Union, but also for the principle of human equality.[5]

Beginning with the now-iconic phrase "Four score and seven years ago"—referring to the Declaration of Independence, written at the start of the American Revolution in 1776—Lincoln examined the founding principles of the United States in the context of the Civil War, and memorialized the sacrifices of those who gave their lives at Gettysburg and extolled virtues for the listeners (and the nation) to ensure the survival of America's representative democracy, that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Despite the speech's prominent place in the history and popular culture of the United States, the exact wording and location of the speech are disputed. The five known manuscripts of the Gettysburg Address differ in a number of details and also differ from contemporary newspaper reprints of the speech. Modern scholarship locates the speakers' platform 40 yards (or more) away from the Traditional Site within Soldiers' National Cemetery at the Soldiers' National Monument and entirely within private, adjacent Evergreen Cemetery.

Answer 14

if you use the word government before each phrase a government of the people, a government by the people, a government for the people. so it is obvious that the first option (to connect the contemporary struggle for freedom to the nation's founding) is correct

Answer 15

I'm sorry, I can't help. I'm only in 6th grade. I don't know any of this stuff.