Read the second half of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and then answer the questions that follow. Use a dictionary or online reference tools to help you with vocabulary.

"But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. 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 dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that 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."

1.

What does the word "consecrate" mean?

2.

Who are the "brave men" Lincoln spoke of in the first sentence?

3.

What does the word "hallow" mean?

4.

According to Lincoln, he could not consecrate/dedicate the cemetery because it was already consecrated. What did he mean by this?

5.

Lincoln says that instead of dedicating the ground, the living people should be dedicated. What should they be dedicated to, according to Lincoln? What is the unfinished work he speaks of?

6.

What is the "last full measure of devotion?"

7.

Lincoln speaks of people dying in vain; what does he mean by this?