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four score and 7 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
President Abraham Lincoln spoke this phrase as part of his famous Gettysburg Address.
President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in 1863. This speech was written on a napkin during the train ride to where the speech was being held. Four score and seven years is 87 years, a reference to 1776 when we declared our independence from the British.
A score means twenty. Therefore, Lincoln's speech which said "four score and seven years ago" is referring to 87 years ago.
He was referring to the Constitution.
Gettysburg is a city is Pennsylvania where president Abraham Lincoln gave his famous speech called The Gettysburg Address. I bet you know it, it begins "For score and seven years ago". Probably the most famous (and most amazing) speeches ever! It was a incredible speech about the Cvil War, and Lincoln trying to stop it. And if you are even in Pennsylvania, you should go to Gettysburg. Amazing place of American history to see. And if you ever get the chance to look up the Gettysburg Address, definitely do so to see what Lincoln said!
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln began his now famous Gettysburg Address with these words. It was a speech given at the dedication ceremony of the cemetery at the Gettysburg battlefield in November 1863.
Abraham Lincoln
'Four score and seven years ago...'
Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech echoes the opening lines of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Both speeches begin with the phrase "Five score years ago," which refers to 87 years before the time they were delivered: Lincoln's speech was delivered in 1863, and King's speech was delivered in 1963. This parallel establishes a connection between the struggle for civil rights in America and the fight to end slavery.