Look at the photo and read the text. then, answer the question.

upward of 500 marchers crowd on steps and sidewalk in front of city hall and sing after they staged an unannounced march to the municipal building, march 19, 1965, selma, alabama.
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on march 19, 1965 in selma, alabama, a group of civil rights activists formed outside of city hall. the heartbeat of the group grew stronger as more supporters joined, which pumped more life into the peaceful protest.

how does the personification of the activists affect the writer's message?

it describes the physical actions of the protestors to show how they accomplished their purpose.
it emphasizes the idea that there is strength in numbers, so groups are more successful than individuals.
it highlights how coming together and working as a group is an effective way to achieve a goal.
it presents the civil rights movement as a living thing to make readers care more about the cause.

In which part of this excerpt from the gettysburg address does president abraham lincoln argue that the outcome of the war will depend on the determination and loyalty of northern citizens? four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. 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 that war. we have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. but, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow— this ground. the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. it is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us— that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.