AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
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Question
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The Americans started slavery
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The Declaration of Independence was approved /America’s founding
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The Constitution was written
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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: -It had been 87 years since the Declaration of Independence was written at the beginning of the American Revolution.
Detailed explanation-3: -President Lincoln was asked to deliver a message at the dedication of the Gettysburg Civil War Cemetery on November 19, 1863. The featured speaker for the occasion was Edward Everett, a former dean of Harvard University, and one of the most famous orators of his day.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Battle of Gettysburg, fought some four months earlier, was one of the single bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Over the course of three days, more than 45, 000 men were killed, injured, captured or went missing.