Answer:
b
Explanation:
One score and more than 50 years ago, in the first days of July, Confederate General Robert E. Lee pushed his troops forward to Gettysburg, hoping to win a victory on northern soil and gain foreign recognition of the Confederacy. His hopes were soon dashed. After three days of dramatic battle, Union General George Meade defeated the Confederate army.
From July 1-3, nearly 200,000 Americans were engaged in a fierce struggle for the future of the country. Despite early successes, the Confederates could not pierce the Union “fish-hook”- shaped defensive line, although their attempts led to bloody clashes at places like Little Round Top, Devil’s Den, and Cemetery Hill.
The Battle of Gettysburg resulted in approximately 51,000 casualties and inspired President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Lincoln’s moving 2-minute oration, in which he memorialized the battle’s fallen and called for “a new birth of freedom” in the United States, remains one of the most famous speeches in American history.
