Yurchenko‚ Anton Period 1 Due 11/19/13 Gettysburg Address Analysis The Gettysburg Address‚ by Abraham Lincoln has a straightforward meaning‚ but also a deep‚ intricate design that conveys the thoughts of our past president. Given on November 19‚ 1863‚ this speech was a response to the American Civil War‚ and was given at the National Cemetery of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania‚ which was on of the bloodiest and conclusive battles of the war. There were five known copies of the speech‚ each slightly
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The Secession and Ft. Sumter involved the South‚ North‚ South Carolina‚ and Fort Sumter and it affected the North‚ South‚ the Union‚ and South Carolina. The South seceded from the Union after the Election of 1860. They felt that they had no representation in the government once Lincoln became the President. The Southern territories consolidated and formed the “Confederate States of America” . To wholly transform the states in the Confederacy‚ the South captured Fort Sumter which was being controlled
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Memorial Persuasion Essay My thoughts on a memorials are very positive. Even if the event that happened that created to memorial was tragic or depressing‚ it gives remembrance of those involved in the event. And memorials will always remind people of all the things that a person or people did to deserve a memorial after them. In some cases‚ Memorials can be for things that are saddening‚ or maybe even something great that happened and people will never forget thanks to that memorial. Memorials
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Lincoln was the first President not conceived in one of the thirteen unique provinces. Likewise‚ he was the first President from the Republican Party. Preceding his race as President‚ seven Southern states had withdrawn from the Union. In his inaugural location on Walk 4‚ 1861‚ Lincoln contacted the South by letting them know he had no aim of changing bondage as it existed; yet he held firm to the perfect that the Union be always safeguarded and insoluble. Not long after this‚ the Southern states
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What would it be like in the Civil War? November 19‚ 1863 President Abraham Lincoln gave “The Gettysburg Address” speech while the Civil War was still going on “Now we are engaged in a great civil war” (Lincoln‚ Line 4). The Civil War started on April 12‚ 1861 and ended on May 9‚ 1865‚ during this time the Battle of Gettysburg took place from July 1‚ 1863 to July 3‚ 1863. Lincoln gave this crucial speech on the battlefield of Gettysburg to the people of his time so he can urge them to keep fighting
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Abraham was sitting at Ford’s Theater when “BOOM” The Bullet had left the gun and was heading straight for Lincoln’s head‚ And the man behind the gun was James Wilkes Booth. He was an actor and Abe liked his acting but Sadly Abe died the next morning. Before the shooting‚ Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States and That was during the civil war. But before he became president He served in the Illinois Legislature and lost an election for the u.s senate to Stephen Douglas. He was
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Lincoln’s plans were cut short when he was assassinated by John-Wilkes Booth in 1865. If Lincoln had not been assassinated‚ those plans would have carried through. He was the most influential and powerful president that had ever befallen our nation. He controlled the entirety of the power of the government for a long period‚ and with that power brought the nation together‚ ending the civil war. If Lincoln had lived‚ he would have had the remainder of a four-year term to work constructively with the
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Shelby Foote was an American historian and novelist who Random House Publishing Company paid to write a history of the civil war. It took him 20 years to write the 3-volume novel “The Civil War: A Narrative.” Writing 500 to 600 hundred words a day and visiting battlefields as needed to make the Novel as factual as possible with all known reliable historical writings. Treating the North and South the same writing he wrote about both the east and west battles. Using the historian’s standard of evidence
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“In the end‚ it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States of America. That is the only thing most Americans know about him. This essay will address his early childhood‚ law career‚ entering politics‚ presidential years‚ civil war‚ and finally his assassination. Abraham Lincoln never liked to talk about his early life. He was a poor country boy from Hodgenville‚ Kentucky (Freedman 14). Lincoln was born on February
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Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were heroic men who fought for freedom and liberty. Frederick Douglass was a modest man. He fought through the hardest of times and he got through them. When Douglass was pushed down he got right back up. Robert Hayden says in his poem that‚ “this former slave‚ this Negro beaten to his knees‚ exiled‚ visioning the world where none is lonely‚ none hunted‚ alien‚ this man‚ superb in love and logic‚ this man shall be remembered.(SB p.70)” This quote is saying that
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