Read the Gettysburg Address. Underline words and phrases that you feel are important to understanding the document. In the spaces provided, explain how your selections help you understand the meaning and purpose of each paragraph.

**Part 2**

Answer the question below in at least five sentences, using specific evidence from the text.

What was Lincoln's purpose in writing the Gettysburg Address?

**Example - Excerpt from the Emancipation Proclamation**

"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom..."

This excerpt notes that it frees only the slaves in the Confederacy and makes no mention of slaves in the border states. The military will enforce that slaves are freed. But how? We're already at war.