... the growing of crops was the catalyst of their economy. In order to produce a large amount of crops, a vast number of slaves were needed to do the work. In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States. He and his fellow Republicans wanted to only stop the expansion of slavery, not abolish it altogether. Not one state from the South ... the dedication ceremony for Gettysburg's Soldiers National Cemetery to honor dead Union soldiers. Lincoln then went on to deliver one of the most famous speeches in American history. The bloody Battle of Gettysburg and the continuing d...

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Soldiers that fight for our country sadly are not noticed by some of the people who live outside of the war. In The Gettysburg Address, a famous speech written by Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln writes a speech to dedicate a cemetery for those soldiers who had died in war. The real heroes of the war are those men who never made it out alive and they ... who did not make it out deserve the right to be remembered. Like Lincoln said, "We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that nation might live." Many people might ... . It is esti...

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... Cemetery. Two speeches were made this day. Edward Everett, who spoke for a full two hours in front of 15,000 people, presented the first speech. Immediately after that long speech Abraham Lincoln spoke to the crowd for about two minutes, in one of the most memorable speeches in the history of America. This famous speech was the Gettysburg Address. It is inferred ... ...

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