CivilWarRSS

ESSAY

November 19, 1863
 * Topic: Abraham Lincoln

Focus: Gettysburg Address**


 * Reason for choice: An important event in Civil War history**

Need some "starters" to help you brainstorm a thesis? Give your thesis the thesis test
 * What's your point? ([|thesis]): The Gettysburg address was one of the most important events in the Civil War.**

What are four various secondary sources you have found before your research? [] [] [] [] [] What are two primary sources you have found to help your research? [] []
 * What four reasons do you have that will back up your point?**

1) Where the Gettysburg Address was read was declaired one of the largest burial grounds in the Civil War 2) It was read by a very famous person of that time, Abraham Lincoln

3) It was in the time of a turning point in the Civil War

4) It was one of the most quoted speeches in United States history

//It was declaired one of the largest burial grounds in the Civil War//
 * What is your first reason and three to five facts to support it?**

-Wills was authorized to purchase 17 acres for a cemetery to honor those lost in the summer's battle, paying $2,475.87 for the land -3,512 Union soldiers are buried in the cemetery. - There are 6,000 other dead bodies in the cemetery, that served in other wars like the Mexican-American War

What can you conclude from these facts? Many people are buried in this cemetery and the man who bought the land, David Wills, was very wealthy

Sources:http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/sites/gettysburg.htm


 * What is your second reason and three to five facts to support it?**

//It was read by a very famous perosn of that time, Abraham Lincoln//

What can you conclude from these facts?

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 * What is your third reason and three to five facts to support it?**

What can you conclude from these facts?

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//It was one of the most quoted speeches in United States history//
 * What is your fourth reason and three to five facts to support it?**

- " Four score and seven years ago...."- One of the quotes that many students will immediatley say... Thats what Abraham Lincoln said.

- There are five known manuscripts of the Gettysburg Address. 1) Nicolay Copy 2) Hay Copy- 3) Everett Copy 4) Bancroft Copy 5) Bliss Copy What can you conclude from these facts? Abraham Lincoln was a popular man in history.

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 * Based on your research, what conclusions would you make and how does your research connect to your life?**

Ideas on how you are going to present? Involve the class? Be exciting? Interesting? Wow? Huh? Ahhh?\ Read speech to class, make my point clear to the class, see if the class knows what "four score and seven years ago" is from.

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.
 * 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. **