Gettysburg-Powerpoint.ppt

Gettysburg-Powerpoint.ppt

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  The Battle ofGettysburg The Turning Point of the War
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   American CivilWar, also called War Between the States, four-year war (1861–65) between the United States and 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America.
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  The Plan – Lee(C.S.A.) attempts another invasion of the North – Lee hopes to capture another northern city which could convince the North to seek peace – Lee desperately needs supplies; stops at the town of Gettysburg, PA
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  The Union- North General George Meade newly appointed  90,000 troops
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  The Confederacy- The South General Robert E. Lee  75,000 troops  General Pickett  General Longstreet
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  The Aftermath  Casualties –Union = 23,000 – Confederacy = 28,000
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  Lincoln with CivilWar Soldiers
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  Gettysburg Address (cont.) 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 battlefield of that war. CIVIL WAR
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  Gettysburg Address (cont.) 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. gave their lives that that nation might live
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  Actual Photograph ofLincoln just before giving the speech at Gettysburg
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  Gettysburg Address (cont.) But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
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  Gettysburg Address (cont.) 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. unfinished work
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  Gettysburg Address (cont.) 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." last full measure of devotion government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
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   Lincoln notedthat the CW was a test of ideals for which the colonials fought in 1776. He urged Americans to devote themselves to the task begun by the honored dead – “to preserve freedom for all Americans.”