Emancipation and African Americans · US History

Abraham Lincoln’s 'Gettysburg Address' echoed the themes of the Emancipation Proclamation by:

  1. Calling for a 'new birth of freedom' for the nation
  2. Ordering the immediate execution of all rebels
  3. Promising a return to the Missouri Compromise
  4. Declaring the North and South should remain separate
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Correct answer: Calling for a 'new birth of freedom' for the nation

Lincoln linked the sacrifices of the war to the principles of the Declaration of Independence. By 1863, his rhetoric emphasized that the war was being fought to ensure that 'government of the people, by the people, for the people' would include all Americans.

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