Question
When General Lee surrendered at Appomattox, both him and General Grant wanted to:(1 point)
Responses
Have the Union to apologize for violating the South's rights
Have the Union to apologize for violating the South's rights
End the war without more suffering
End the war without more suffering
Overthrow the US government
Overthrow the US government
Make the Confederacy pay for their treason
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.
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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."