Abraham Lincoln stood before a large audience in the battleground of Gettysburg to honer those
who had lost their life in Battle. The president wanted to make sure that in his address the audience
knew that the sacrifices made of the battlefield during the civil war would not have been in vain. Along
with the lives lost Lincoln also tells them that the war in which Americans are fighting one another
would not tear the country apart. Also people should keep in mind what the founding father wanted
America to be like when they fought for their independence to live in a free nation.
At the time of the Gettysburg address America was caught in the middle of the Civil war, which
tore apart the fabric of the nation. Lincoln was already
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The reason why
he decided to hold the address at Gettysburg was because it was one of the largest battles of the Civil
war and he thought it would be an appropriate place to remind everyone the sacrifices that had been
made up to that point.
The audience that President Lincoln wanted to reach at the Gettysburg address were the average
Americans, those people who had fought and protected the freedom that America had given their
families when they sailed across from Europe. Simply put Lincoln as President wanted to make sure
that the people of the country he was leading knew that this was only a dark time that America needed
to join together to overcome.
President Lincoln wanted to address the nation with a speech that would hopefully encourage
people to believe in the power of the country and in the power within themselves. Also to shed light on
what the Civil war was doing to the United States he wanted to show people a battlefield that young
men had died on to fight for their freedoms. There is a strong correlation between what he says in his
speech and the field it takes place in. And although the conflict was larger than almost anything