USA HISTORY

what document is lincoln referring to as “All men are created equal.”

(A) bill of rights

(B) ** Declaration of Independence

(C) daffy duck

(D) civil rights

Concept note-1: -Lincoln began his Gettysburg Address with a direct allusion to and quotation from the Declaration of Independence. Fourscore and seven years ago refers to 1776, and all men are created equal is a quotation from the document.

Concept note-2: -Correct. The phrase that Lincoln quotes from the Declaration of Independence is “all men are created equal.” The phrase “let Facts be submitted to a candid world” is also a phrase from the Declaration of Independence, but Lincoln did not include this phrase in the Gettysburg Address.

Concept note-3: -We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Concept note-4: -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.