Q 01/05

One week after the Gettysburg Address, Americans marked which holiday, newly proclaimed for the whole nation by Lincoln?

A) Memorial Day

B) Thanksgiving

C) Labor Day

D) Veterans Day

Answer · why

B) Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving. Urged on by the magazine editor Sarah Josepha Hale, Lincoln had proclaimed it for the last Thursday of November 1863, which fell a week ...

Q 02/05

Roughly how many words long is the Gettysburg Address?

A) About 90

B) About 270

C) About 900

D) About 2,700

Answer · why

B) About 270

About 270. Lincoln needed roughly two minutes to say them, after the day's main orator had held the same crowd for two hours.

Q 03/05

The Address honoured Union soldiers who had turned back which Confederate general's invasion of the North in July 1863?

A) Stonewall Jackson

B) Braxton Bragg

C) Robert E. Lee

D) Joseph E. Johnston

Answer · why

C) Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee. Three days of fighting cost the two armies around 50,000 casualties, and on the Fourth of July Lee began leading his beaten army back t...

Q 04/05

Lincoln's opening, 'Four score and seven years ago', reaches back to which founding document?

A) The Constitution

B) The Declaration of Independence

C) The Articles of Confederation

D) The Mayflower Compact

Answer · why

B) The Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence. Eighty-seven years before 1863 is 1776, and Lincoln chose to date the nation from its claim that all men are created ...

Q 05/05

In the Address's opening sentence, Lincoln calls the United States a new nation 'conceived in' what?

A) Freedom

B) Justice

C) Union

D) Liberty

Answer · why

D) Liberty

Liberty. Lincoln pictures the nation as a living thing, 'conceived' and 'brought forth', so that the war becomes a test of whether it will survive or ...