He was referring to the Declaration of Independence (1776), which at the time he spoke was written 87 years ago (a "score" is 20, so four score = 80).
No doubt he was referring to 1776 - the Declaration of Independence.
Four score and seven years ago
Abraham Lincoln gave the, "Four score and seven years ago," speech.
Martin Luther King Jr. started it with 'five score years ago...' it was just like when Abraham Lincoln did the Gettysburg Address starting with 'four score and seven years ago...'
Four score and seven years ago isn't the "name" of a famous speech, it is the first line of the Gettysburg Address, spoken by Abraham Lincoln during the civil war. ---- That would be the begging of the Getsysbrug Address
There were no colonists involved in Gettysburg. The US had been a country for four score and seven (87) years.
The Gettysburg address.
That was the Gettysburg Address.
A score is twenty years, so 4 score is 80 years and 'four score and seven' means 87 years.
Four score and seven years, which is 87 years as a score is slang for 20.
A score means 20. Hence in the Gettysburg Address when Lincoln referred to "four score and seven years ago" he meant 87 years ago.
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago
Four score and seven=87 87 years prior to the Gettysburg address, was the American Revolution.
Abraham Lincoln gave the, "Four score and seven years ago," speech.
It is 20 years. So in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, "four score and seven years ago" is 87 years--he was referring to 1776.
A score is 20. So 40 score would be 800... but I'm guessing you are asking about the Gettysburg Address "four-score and seven years ago..." which means "87 years ago..."
Four score and seven years ago