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**__ The Gettysburg Address __** Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863 on the Gettysburg battlefield. Originally he thought that the speech would not even be remembered and that it would have no affect on anyone. We still to this day remember his speech and it impacted us strongly. It was something that changed history which is why it is so known today and was in the past. The speech basically is saying how 87 years before the civil war the declaration of independence stated that all men are created equal and then they were in a civil war where there own people died. He was dedicating that land to those people who were in the war and saved our nation. They devoted themselves to holding the nation together and fought for what they believed in, some died for it, and those people will never be forgotten. That was the main reason Abraham Lincoln gave the speech. It changed the insight of a lot of people back then and made them have more respect for what took place. People today even have more respect for it than we would if the speech was never given. This assignment was challenging for me because it was extremely hard to figure out what the words of the speech meant because I have never heard anyone talk like that before and it was hard to understand. After I read over it a few times I got the basic meaning of it and why it was so important. Another challenging part was figuring out how to work to photo book because I never used it before and I was sick and loosing my voice so I couldn’t do the voice recording portion of it. Other than that this project was pretty simple and it was a good way to learn about the Gettysburg Address.