1. What can you infer about the battle conditions experienced by soldiers at Gettysburg? Cite evidence from the text. 2. Describe the tone of the Gettysburg Address. Cite words and phrases that help identify the tone. What else contributes to the tone?

3. What effect does Lincoln achieve by using phrases from the Declaration of Independence?

USE THE TEXT- PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
The Gettysburg Address by President Abraham Lincoln; November 19, 1863.

Battle of Gettysburg
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."
Look at the painting, read the Gettysburg Address, and answer the questions. Painting of the Battle of Gettysburg by Thure de Thulstrup, 1887
2) Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether
that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure.
3) We are met on a great battle field of that war. We have
come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live. This we may, in all propriety do. 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 hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can never forget what they did here.
4) It is rather for us, the living, we here be dedicated to the
great task remaining before us —that, from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, 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.