Read and Analyze "The Gettysburg Address" 1. For much of the conflict, both the Union and the Confederacy depicted the Civil War as a
struggle over the issue of states' rights. In "The Gettysburg Address," however, Lincoln did not
define the war in these terms. How do you think Lincoln's assertion that the war was really
about freedom, equality and the survival of the United States affected the way Northerners
viewed the war's importance? Why would this change in how Northerners viewed the war have
been one that Lincoln would have encouraged and welcomed?