How Well Do You Know The Gettysburg Address?
Why did Abraham Lincoln decide to deliver a speech at Gettysburg?
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Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address six months after the Battle of Gettysburg to honor the troops who died there. Of the 166,000 Union and Confederate soldiers, 3,155 died, and 14,531 were wounded on the Union side alone.
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Michel du Cille/The Washington Post via Getty Images
Why did Abraham Lincoln decide to deliver a speech at Gettysburg?
- All of these
- To honor those who died at Gettysburg
- To rally the Union troops to fight
- To justify the Emancipation Proclamation
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