PL HELP ):) This assignment has two sections to read with a total of three short-answer responses.

The Battle of Gettysburg

In the summer of 1863, Lee felt confident enough to risk another invasion of the North. He hoped to capture a Northern city and help convince the weary North to seek peace.

Union and Confederate troops met on July 1, 1863, west of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The Union troops, about 90,000 strong, were led by newly appointed General George C. Meade. After a brief skirmish, they occupied four miles of high ground along an area known as Cemetery Ridge. About a mile to the west, some 75,000 Confederate troops gathered behind Seminary Ridge.

The following day, the Confederates attempted to find weak spots in the Union position, but the Union lines held firm. On the third day, Lee ordered an all-out attack on the center of the Union line. Cannons filled the air with smoke and thunder. George Pickett led 15,000 Confederate soldiers in a charge across the low ground separating the two forces.

Pickett's charge marked the northernmost point reached by Southern troops during the war. However, as Confederate troops pressed forward, Union gunners opened great holes in their advancing lines. Those men who managed to make their way to Cemetery Ridge were struck down by Union soldiers in hand-to-hand combat.

Although Gettysburg was a victory for the Union, the losses on both sides were staggering. More than 17,500 Union soldiers and 23,000 Confederate troops were killed or wounded in three days of battle. Lee, who lost about a third of his army, withdrew to Virginia. From this point on, he would only wage a defensive war on Southern soil.

On July 3, 1863, General George Pickett

led 15,000 Confederate troops in a

charge against the Union lines. Row

after row of Confederate soldiers fell

under a rain of bullets until they finally

retreated.

1. Describe the battle of Gettysburg. Be sure to include the significance of the battle and why we remember it as a turning point of the war.

2. Complete the dialogue below:

What might General Lee have said before and after the Battle of Gettysburg?

Before Gettysburg: General Lee: “If we can…

After the battle: General Lee: “Now I think…

The Gettysburg Address

Washington D. C. - Lincoln Memorial Abraham Lincoln 04

In 1863, President Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg. Thousands of the men who died there had been buried in a new cemetery. Lincoln was among those invited to speak at the dedication of this new burial ground. The nation would never forget Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

https://youtu. be/U2a-S3rjDBw

Four score 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 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.

Abraham Lincoln

November 19, 1863

3. Write a short response to this excerpt from the Gettysburg Address that shows how Lincoln chose words to connect his speech to the Declaration of Independence. Then explain why you think he wanted to connect his address to the Declaration. Your response should be a minimum of 2-3 sentences.