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GEttysburg Adress The Gettysburg Address was a document that shaped American past and present. Abraham Lincoln delivered the speech in just three and a half minutes using a mere two hundred and seventy two words. Though short, the speech resulted in many things. The Gettysburg Address was the speech that led to the passage of the 14th amendment, was a means of justification for using the Declaration of Independence as law of the land as opposed to the Constitution and created a louder voice for antislavery advocates, past and future. The Gettysburg Address was a speech by Abraham Lincoln, delivered November 19, 1863. The speech was made at the site of the Cemetery of Gettysburg. This was the site where many men died because a nation was divided at the time. The primary division was the issue of slavery. The North felt that slavery was a moral issue, that the enslavement of other human beings was wrong and needed to be abolished. The Southern states, which were far behind the industrialized North, desperately needed the slave to keep the economy of the South going and not fall into a depression. Early in Lincoln’s administration, he did not take a stance on slavery slavery, lincoln, speech, jefferson, gettysburg, nation, independence, declaration, created, address, fathers, years, using, time, writ, two, stance, men, liberty, issue, constitution, antislavery, abraham, wrong, war, uprisings, though, stating, specifically, seven, past, one, line, law, land, institution