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…showed last 75 words of 891 total…helped take some of the largest step towards the world power we are now. The importance of this speech was unifying the nation, remembering the dead, and creating a literary piece of art. In the end, though he knew it would be important, it seems impossible that President Lincoln could fathom that the speech he gave on a small cemetery in Gettysburg would have such historical importance and be considered a literary masterpiece. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**