(A) ** America’s Founding Fathers.
(B) Abraham Lincoln’s dad.
(C) The fathers of the soldiers who died.
(D) Christopher Columbus.
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. “Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
Concept note-2: -At Gettysburg Lincoln explained: the suffering and sacrifice must lead to “a new birth of freedom” that would perpetuate the achievement and the ideals of the fathers-the soldiers of the Revolutionary War who had “brought forth” the nation.
Concept note-3: -Lincoln was declaring that the United States would continue to fight to preserve the nation that was created by the Founding Fathers who wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776.