Read this excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and then answer the question that follows:
(1) Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liber
equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war... testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicat
war.
(2) We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that
should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate ... we cannot consecrate... we cannot hallow this grour
consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we s
What is the main purpose of the second paragraph of this speech?
To state the author's demands for amends
O To demonstrate the importance of the situation
To provide a possible solution for the future
To state the outcome of the war the speaker expects