Question

Which of the following did president Abraham Lincoln quote from in his Gettysburg Address?
A. The Constitution
B. The Declaration of Independence
C. Common Sense
D. The Federalist papers
E. The Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 1

Hint: The Gettysburg Address is a speech that United States President Abrahim Lincoln conveyed during the American civil war at the perseverance of the soldiers,s National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of November 19, 1863.

Complete answer:
The declaration of independence was the quote of President Abraham Lincoln from in his Gettysburg Address.
On November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies conquered Battle of Gettysburg, President Abrahim Lincoln delivered speech, which later became known as the Gettysburg Address, in Pennsylvania, on the plot of one of the deadliest and bloodiest battles of civil war. Though he was not the main orator that day, Lincoln’s brief address would be memorized as one of the most important speeches in American history.
In it he summoned the principles of human equality in the Declaration of Independence and attached the sacrifices of the civil war with the desire for “a new birth of freedom”, as well as the all-important maintenance of the Union made in 1776 and its ideal of self-government.
Despite an important place of the speech in the history and popular culture of the United States, its exact wording is challenged. The five known manuscripts of the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln’s hand vary in a number of details.

Therefore the correct answer is B.

Note: Abraham Lincoln started his Gettysburg address with a direct allusion to and quotation from the declaration of independence. His meticulously crafted address came to be seen as one of the most magnificent and most influential speeches of American national purpose. The speech of 273 words is known as one of the world's best speeches in the world.