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Name _______________________________________ Date ______________________
Use the words in the list to complete the sentence.
The Gettysburg Address President Abraham Lincoln November 19, 1863
Four __________ and seven years ________ our fathers brought forth on this __________ a new nation, conceived in __________, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created __________.
Now we are __________ in a great civil war, testing whether that __________, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long __________. We are met on a great battle-field of that ________. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final __________ place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might _________. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not __________, we can not consecrate, we can not __________ this ground. The __________ men, living and __________, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our __________ power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long __________ 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 __________ 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 __________ before us—that from these __________dead we take increased __________ to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these __________ shall not have died in __________—that this nation, under God, shall have a new __________ of freedom—and that government of the people, by the __________, for the people, shall not perish from the ___________.
Answer Key
Name _______________________________________ Date ______________________
Use the words in the list to complete the sentence.
The Gettysburg Address President Abraham Lincoln November 19, 1863
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.
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.
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