Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address. He was the president of the United States at the moment so therefore he was a political individual during these times. Lincoln did not attend college, but he did get lower education. The speech was primarily for the whole American nation. It was dedicated to the soldiers who lost their lives and the ones who still stand proud. The setting of the speech was at a cemetery for the people who were losing their life due to the war that was going on at that exact time. President Abraham Lincoln delivered a speech, which later became known as the Gettysburg Address in November 1863, at the official dedication ceremony for the National Cemetery of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, on the site of one of the worse, heartbreaking, and most decisive battles of the Civil War. 

Though he did not know that day, Lincoln’s brief address would be remembered as one of the most important speeches in American history. Lincoln gave an effective speech it had a very powerful effect on not only the people who had lost a loved one but also on the whole country as one. Also, the purpose was of the soldier’s sacrifice: equality, freedom, and national unity. The Civil War that carried across the nation from 1861 to 1865 was the brutal ending to the decades of diversification. The 1800s started out having men leaving the farms and ranches and had them breaking out into the world of business in shops, offices, and the like. This left the women at home in charge of their own little world. Education for women in the 1800s was minimal during that period. Schooling was for the male gender, and if a woman wanted to go to school, she was looked down upon. The woman’s role was in the house and only the house and nothing more or less. This is what it was like in 1800 for equality for women. Although there was still slavery happening at the time people still had freedom. The only reason we had freedom was for those soldiers sacrificing everything not only their freedom, equality, and unity. They sacrificed so much more just for us. Lincoln knew the audience would understand what he was saying without saying it. He shows compassion for the Civil War is shown as he mourns the loss of the soldiers that were lost. He creates abutment in his final statement of a “new birth” and the interference of a “perished” nation. The use of his words allowed Lincoln the motivation to take action by uniting the people of the United States. Although this speech was just 279 it was an incredible and magnificent speech, and every word was accurate. This speech is believable because due to the circumstances of the whole purpose of the speech. 

The civil war was happening, therefore, people were dying, the president must speak up and say something to the people of the United States to level out what everyone is dwelling on also known as the great task and the setting was an excellent place for what Lincoln talked about in his speech. The speech could be taken from a political point of view because when Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address he was the president of the United States. He was very determined to get across their mind what he was trying to say in his speech. He also wants the speech to emerge into something other than just a 272-word speech. He wants people to look at this speech want to make the change of unity and all the other things. The intro “Four scores and seven-year ago” is from the bible and “the days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if because of strength they are fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it soon cut off, and we fly away’ also comes from the bible so this speech is very religionist. Additionally, some terms and phrases have to do with the bible like “ dedicate” “ under God” “ new birth” and “perish”. The religion in this speech help stance on slavery.