USA HISTORY

Four-score and seven means eighty-seven.

(A) ** True

(B) False

Concept note-1: -So “four score and seven years” translates to 87 years. This speech was delivered in 1863; 87 years earlier was 1776, the year that the signing of the Declaration of Independence officially declared U.S. independence and “brought forth on this continent a new nation."

Concept note-2: -Literally, “87 years ago” (score sense: “group of 20”) the beginning of the Gettysburg Address made on November 19, 1863, by United States President Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865).

Concept note-3: -adjective. four·score ˈfȯr-ˈskȯr. : being four times twenty : eighty.

Concept note-4: -Four score means 80 years. Four score and seven years ago means 87 years ago. 87 years from 1863 (year of the Gettysburg Address) is 1776 (year of the Declaration of Independence). For Lincoln and hopefully his audience, 1776 meant the year of “a new birth of freedom.”