1. The Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln

4. Historical background Union forces defeated the Confederates in the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania July 1– July 3, 1863. It was the largest battle of the American Civil War 51.000 soldiers were injured, missing or dead

5. 2 hours <-> 2 min

6. "I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.“ (Edward Everett) http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/everett.htm

8. “(...) who here gave their lives that that nation might live.”

9. “(…) The world will no longer remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.“

10. Past = Founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence Present = first state cemetery to honour fallen soldiers Future = fragile new formed nation has to fight for equality and freedom, the values of the American people

11. “(…) 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.“

12. “(…) Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.” (Martin Luther King)

13. American democracy and equality today

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15. Bibliography: Boyer, Paul S., et al., eds., The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People. 4 th edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. Pohanka, Reinhard. Der Amerikanische Bürgerkrieg. Wiesbaden: Marix Verlag GmbH, 2007. Historynet, The battle of Gettysburg. http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-gettysburg. 18.04.2015. U.S. National Archives & Records Administration, The Gettysburg Address (1863). http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=36. 19.04.2015. White, Ronald C., Jr., A. Lincoln. A Biography. New York, Random House, 2010. Governmental Archives. I have a dream. 1963. http://www.archives.gov/press/exhibits/dream-speech.pdf 19.4.2015. http://www.archives.gov/press/exhibits/dream-speech.pdf Richardson, Heather Cox. “What the Gettysburg Address means today.” The Historical Society. November 18, 2013. 19.4. 2015. http://histsociety.blogspot.de/2013/11/what-gettysburg-address-means- for.html http://histsociety.blogspot.de/2013/11/what-gettysburg-address-means- for.html