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The Gettysburg Address Thesis

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The Gettysburg Address is a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863. This speech was delivered at the dedication of Soldier’s National Cemetery, a cemetery for Union soldiers killed at the Battle Of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Lincoln was asked to give that speech for a sole purpose and that was to remind the assembled crowd of the Founding Fathers' vision, which established a nation that was “dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” Originally, Lincoln was invited to give a "few appropriate remarks,". Lincoln was not the featured speaker at the dedication. Edward Everett, a former politician and educator, was. Everett spoke for two hours, from memory, before Lincoln took the podium. Lincoln

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