USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

[SOURCES]
How many is “four score and seven”?

(A) 47

(B) 17

(C) ** 87

(D) 407

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -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-2: -four·score ˈfȯr-ˈskȯr. : being four times twenty : eighty.