Response To Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln was a great president for the actions that he took during his presidencies, whether this was his words or his actions, he helped to bring together a nation that was on the verge of ripping itself apart. Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was one of his most famous of speeches. This speech was given after the Battle of Gettysburg which was the last battle of the Civil War. In this address to the then divided United States of America, he was able to move the Confederate Army to surrender and abolished slavery. There were a few factors that influenced his speech. With the looming fact that he was addressing a battleground full of people months after the biggest battle yet of the Civil War was a major influence on people at the speech, but the written piece itself was able to influence

It was slotted to be a long speech and many people gathered, but Lincoln only spoke for a few minutes. He used This misdirection to give an ultimatum to the American people. The reason for this being that from the beginning of the speech to the end he changes the topic. He starts out by noting that they are dedicating this land as a cemetery and memorial ground, which is seen in the separation of the first paragraph, from the way it was constructed it sounds like a standard address. In the second part of the speech however, he shifts his stance away from the simple creation of the consecrated ground to why it became that way in the first places. He places emphasis on the men, from both sides of the war, who died for the land they were standing on. From here he then notes that even if history does not remember the words he spoke that day, they will never forget the actions taken by those men. He takes this topic and propels it to the dramatic since that they died for the similar causes, to bring liberty to their people for the same reasons of bringing their version of America freedom and