You're going to read parts of the Gettysburg Address and answer the following questions: What was the main point of the speech? Do you think that his speech would make people in the US feel hopeful or worried about the future of the country? "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. 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 battle-field of that war. 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. ... 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. 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." What’s the answer
The main point of the Gettysburg Address was to honor those who had died in the Civil War and to reaffirm the principles of equality and democracy on which the United States was founded. Lincoln stated that it was the duty of the living to continue the work of those who had given their lives for the nation's survival.
Overall, the speech would likely have made people in the US feel hopeful about the future of the country. Lincoln's words emphasized the importance of unity, equality, and democracy, and the idea that the sacrifices of those who had died in the war would not be in vain. The speech conveyed a sense of purpose and dedication to the principles on which the nation was founded, which would likely have inspired optimism among those listening.