AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
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27 years ago some people made a new country that brought us together
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87 years ago some people made a new country that brought us together
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27 years ago our relatives made a new country that brought us together
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-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."
Detailed explanation-2: -Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon 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.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.