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Gettysburg address Abraham Lincoln Edward Everett Thinking What’s the background of the Gettysburg address? Why did these two people deliver the speech at Gettysburg? Uncle Tom’s cabin Uncle Toms Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States, so much in the latter case that the novel intensified the sectional conflict leading to the American Civil War The background of the war of Gettysburg Uncle Tom’s cabin Abraham Lincoln allegedly remarked, So youre the little lady who started this great war!’ This story is about the life of a loyal slave called Tom, who was sold by his owner and later on suffered all kinds of misfortune .when his original owner want to buy him back ,he died under the cruel beating of another slave owner. Feeling regret for Tom’s death, the slave owner freed all the other slaves . Every time you see Uncle Toms Cabin, we should think of your freedom. this is the final sentence of the book Background The Gettysburg war the turning point of the American civil war. In 1863, both Abraham Lincoln and Edward Everett made an address on the base of that background. And both speeches have great effect on the history. Abraham Lincoln 　　1809年2月12日，出生在一座简陋的小屋 　　1824年，15岁，开始上学 　　1832年，23岁，竞选州议员，但失败了， 想进法学院学法律，但未获入学资格,工作也丢了 　　1833年，24岁，向朋友借钱经商，年底失败；接下来还了16年， 才把这笔钱还清 　　1834年，25岁，再次竞选州议员，当选 　　1835年，26岁，订婚后即将结婚时，未婚妻病逝，因此他的心也碎了 　　1836年，27岁，精神完全崩溃，卧病在床6个月 　　1840年，31岁，争取成为被选举人，失败了 　　1841年，32岁，当选国会议员 　　1849年，40岁，想在自己州内担任土地水长，被录选了 　　1854年，45岁，竞选参议员 1860年，51岁，当选美国第16任总统 　　1864年，55岁，连任美国总统，北方军取得胜利 　　1865年，56岁，去世 Edward Everett 爱德华·埃弗里特（Edward Everett，1794年4月11日波士顿 - 1865年1月15日波士顿），美国政治家，曾任马萨诸塞州州长 (1836-1840)、哈佛大学校长 (1846–1849)和美国国务卿(1852-1854) 。 The setting At that time, Edward Everett was best-known for his remarkable lectures After the constru