History

Beckett Foley

5 February, 22:46

The Gettysburg Address was a speech given by Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. What was the significance of the location of Gettysburg? *

several months earlier, one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War occurred there

Gettysburg was a site where one of the most famous slave uprisings took place

the Civil War began there when Confederate troops fired on Union soldiers

Gettysburg had been part of the Confederacy, and the Union had taken it over