Gettysburg Address
by Abraham Lincoln
Look at the first paragraph of the passage on
page 1.
Four score and seven years ago' our fathers
brought forth, upon this continent, a new
nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to
the proposition that all men are created
equal.
Click on the underlined word that MOST
emphasizes the idea that the founding of the
United States was like a birth.
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 battle field of
