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Four score and seven=87
87 years prior to the Gettysburg Address, was the American Revolution.
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Which speech begins with 'Four score and seven years ago'?
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
What the years in a score?
A score means 20. Hence in the Gettysburg Address when Lincoln referred to "four score and seven years ago" he meant 87 years ago.
What was a famous quotation Lincoln said?
'Four score and seven years ago...'
What was Abraham Lincoln trying to tell the audience when he said Four Score and Seven Years Ago?
the singing of the declaration of independence. The Gettysburg address was in 1863 four score and seven years ago refers to 87 years which is 1776 the singing of the Declaration of Independence.
What is four scores and seven years ago about?
That was just Lincoln trying to sound Biblical about the Declaration of Independence (1776) as he made the Gettysburg Address in 1863.
What did President Lincoln say about four score and seven years in his famous speech?
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When Lincoln mentioned a score of years he meant?
A score means twenty. Therefore, Lincoln's speech which said "four score and seven years ago" is referring to 87 years ago.
Which speech begins with 'Four score and seven years ago'?
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
What was the speech called beginning with four scores and seven years ago called?
Abraham Lincoln gave the, "Four score and seven years ago," speech.
Who wrote the speech that started-four score and seven years ago?
Abraham Lincoln wrote it on November 19,1863.
Who are the fathers of the quote four score and seven years ago?
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.
What famous speech has the words 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
What is the first 6 words of the Gettysburg Address?
Lincoln's Emancipation was proclaimed great honor and contact officicated in glory.
What does 'four score and seven years' mean?
Four score and seven years = 87 years. A "score" is 20. Abraham Lincoln used this phrase as a fancy way of referring to the founding of the country (in 1776) in his Gettysburg Address, the speech he gave at the dedication of a cemetery for those who died in that devastating Civil War battle. Lincoln likely intended an allusion to familiar biblical language (King James Version), especially to Psalm 90, in which the human life span is said to be "three score years and ten".
Which part of the you have a dream speech came from the Gettysburg address?
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...'
What number of years was mentioned at start of Lincoln's Gettysburg address?
Four score and seven years, which is 87 years as a score is slang for 20.
What the years in a score?
A score means 20. Hence in the Gettysburg Address when Lincoln referred to "four score and seven years ago" he meant 87 years ago.
