Based on the excerpt, what was the main purpose of Lincoln’s speech?

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Read the following information and excerpt from Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863), and use this information for Questions below.   The Gettysburg Address was delivered by Lincoln during the Dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Pennsylvania, four and half months after the Battle of Gettysburg. Here’s an excerpt:     It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored... Show more

Based on the excerpt, what was the main purpose of Lincoln’s speech?