Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is directed toward Americans after the Battle of Gettysburg. Lincoln had attempted to preserve the union and wanted to avoid civil war, yet the civil war began. He reminds the citizens that America was founded on the basis of equality and this war is testing whether the nation will survive. Now, Americans must resolve what these men were fighting for and America needs to have a rebirth of freedom so that the "government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from Earth."
similar to Lincoln inaugural address, JFK expressed ideas of unity in the nation "don't ask what the nation can do for you, but what you can do for the nation."
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