Gettysburg Address

What is the Gettysburg Address? The Gettysburg Address was a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, delivered after the Civil War, to unify the nation under a "new birth of freedom."

The speech began with the phrase “Four score and seven years ago,” which highlighted the American Revolution and examined the core principles of the United States that the “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

The exact wording of the Gettysburg Address is unknown because several different manuscripts exist and differ widely from versions published in newspapers.

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