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It is agreed that Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and Barrack Obama are the US presidents that entered office in the most trying times. President Obama entered office at a time of a global depression/recession and when the USA was fighting two wars. President Roosevelt entered office in the Great Depression. And Southern states seceded from the Union as soon as President Lincoln was elected. This act of secession threatened to permanently divide the US into two separate nations. The new president had to act and it proved that going to war was the only way to save the Union.

We will now do a collaborative exercise to examine the method and mindset of Abraham Lincoln in his endeavor to reunite the country. Lincoln had no option but to go to war. The Civil War was fought to determine which economic and social system would prevail. The Southern system was based on an agrarian system supported by chattel slavery. The Northern system was based on industry that was being under cut by the Southern policy of free labor. Both systems could not coexist and neither side wanted to give up their institution. So a war was fought to determine which system would be the law of the land.

Lincoln was elected president November 6, 1860. Immediately after his election South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas seceded from the Union. In February of 1861, the Confederate States of America was formed and Jefferson Davis was selected as its’ president. April 12, 1861 the Confederate army attacked and captured the federal Fort Sumter. This was an act of war and it started the Civil War. July 1861 the Union army was defeated in the first battle at Bull Run. February 1862 the Union army gets a victory by capturing Forts Henry and Donelson. March 1862 the Confederate warship, the Merrimac, sinks two Union ships. The Confederates army wins the battles of Shiloh and the second Bull Run in April of 1862. The Union gets a victory September 1862 at Antietam. The Confederates army wins the battles at Fredericksburg in December 1862 and Chancellorsville in May of 1863. The south is winning the war. However, the tide of the war turns when the north wins the battle at Gettysburg.

This is where your collaboration starts. After the battle of Gettysburg, President Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg and made a famous speech now known as the Gettysburg Address. Below is a copy of that speech. Read the speech and answer the following questions. 1. What is the purpose or the speech? 2. How does it aim to achieve this purpose? 3. Does the speech successfully achieve its purpose? Why or why not? 4. Why has the speech become so famous?

** FOURSCORE 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 battlefield 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 the nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. 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. 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. 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. **

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 * **Why is it important in this global age to know more then your native language?**
 * **What language am I using / translate?** ** "Sabaah el khair, shu ismik (ismak)?" **
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