Annotated Bibliography

Tiana Golding
4-30-13
Histry-10
The Gettysburg address was A speech delivered by President Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863, four months after the Battle of Gettysburg, for the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He defined American democracy, set apart the war for the Union, and described America as a " new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” Lincoln’s second inaugural address, delivered just over a month before his death, was about the war as he had come to understand it. The war that alrrady lasted 4 years, he believed, was nothing short of God’s own punishment for the sins of human slavery. The basic messages of both are similar in the way Lincoln focuses on the relationships between the American past, present and future. Both speeches weave their way through the past until arriving in the present, then finishes by looking ahead at the future this past and present created. These sources support each other because the Gettysburg address talks about how America is a "New Nation" and "dedicated to the proposition that All men are created equal" and in his 2nd innagural addressed America on the issue of slavery. They both show that Lincoln has high hopes for the future of America.

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