what does this sentence from gettysburg adress mean?

Question

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.

Answer 1

QUOTE: 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.

Score is a term used to signify 20 years. So Four Score and seven years is 80+7 or 87 years ago.
Basically, it says 87 years ago, our founders settled a new country based on the fundamentals of free ideals and that everyone is the same no matter creed or thought.

Answer 2

In November of 1863, four months after the Battle of Gettysburg, President Lincoln was asked to give a speech dedicating The Gettysburg National Cemetery. Lincoln's speech lasted only two minutes, but it went into history as the immortal Gettysburg Address.

Answer 3

87 years ago, out founding fathers founded this new country on this continent (north america), made in liberty and dedicated to the idea that all men are created equal.

Answer 4

Four score and seven years is eighty seven years aka 1776 - the signing of the declaration of independence that states that all men are created equal.

Answer 5

Eighty-seven years ago our predecessors gave birth to a new nation based on freedom, and a strong belief in the ideal of all human beings being created equally.

Answer 6

I'll give you a hint: a "score" is equal to 20. So what happened (4 x 20) + 7 years before this speech?

Answer 7

87 years ago (ie 1776) our ancestors formed the USA based on the ideals of freedom and equality for all.

Answer 8

http://americancivilwar.com/north/lincoln.html