what happened four score and before 1863 please help!?

Answer 1

~It's "four score and seven years". That would be 87 years. 1863 minus 87 equals 1776. Does that year ring any bells with you?

Of course, that was only the first mistake Lincoln made in his speech. Nothing happened in 1776 other than a handful of treasonous terrorists declared themselves to be independent of their rightful sovereign.. The US was born with the Treaty of Paris in 1783, or more accurately, with the ratification and implementation of the constitution in 1789.

The more egregious error is in his concluding remark:

" that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

The southern rebels in 1860 had done exactly what the rebels of 1776 had done - they had declared themselves independent from what they considered a tyrannical government. The war was not about slavery. Slavery was a constitutional right and could only be abolished by constitutional amendment, but I won't go off on that rant again. The south had lost its power and political clout and was being bullied by the tyranny of the majority. The constitution was intended to create a weak central government and to preserve most of the autonomy of the several states. That ideal had been lost over time in the north and west, but the southerners remembered what they had voted for back three score and 11 years earlier. The southern states continued to be democracies, allied together in a confederation somewhat akin to the US under the Articles of Confederation. Each of the states of the confederacy had elected to secede by democratic process, and there is nothing in the constitution which prohibited them from doing so. In fact, it wasn't even a new idea. The New England states had threatened to secede 50 years earlier, and were talked out of it by their southern brothers - back when the south held the power. Thus, the Confederate states represented a government of the people, by the people, for the people, while the Federals were trying to force them to remain in the union against their will by force of arms. In any case, regardless of the outcome of the war, "government of the people, by the people, for the people" was not going to perish. Had the south won, the north would have continued under the constitution and the south would have comprised another 11 democracies confederated together as a commonwealth of nations. That, of course, did not occur. The north prevailed and the will of the people of the south was suppressed by guns and death. Unless Lincoln was praising the fallen confederates, that final sentiment is grossly hypocritical, is it not?

Still, if one doesn't analyze it too deeply (or at all), it was a good speech.

Answer 2

Declaration was written
1 score = 20 years
4 score = 80 years

1773 - 80 years before 1863

Answer 3

The Civil War in the U.S. Four score, of course, being a reference to Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address which was delivered on November 13, 1863.

Answer 4

If you look up "score" you would see that a score of years is 20. The quote is "Four score and 7 years ago..."
So 4 score and 7 years is 87 years.
1863 - 87 = 1776.

I'm not American and even I know that was the year of the declaration of independance for America from England.

Answer 5

The Gettysburg address starts like that. "Four Score and 7 years ago..."

Here is the whole thing, if that's what your looking for, it should tell you some things.

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.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.


Hope it helps!

Answer 6

Unless I miss my guess, the math says 4 score and before 1863 is 1783, February 3 - American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence. February 4
American Revolutionary War: Great Britain formally declares that it will cease hostilities with the United States of America. An earthquake in Calabria, Italy, leaves 50,000 dead.

An earthquake in Calabria, Italy, leaves 50,000 dead.
March 5 - Last celebration of Massacre Day.
April 15 - Preliminary articles of peace ending American Revolutionary War ratified.
May 18 - Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada- First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown.
June 4 or June 5 - The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon) in Annonay, France.
June 8 - The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills 9350 people and starts a seven-year famine. Eruption causes deaths of livestock when they eat contaminated grass and also widespread crop failure. Effects of the Laki volcano were felt all over Europe. New evidence has been unearthed to conclude that this was one of "the greatest environmental catastrophies in European History"

[edit] July - December
July 16 - Grants of land in Canada to American loyalists announced.
July 24 - Treaty of Georgievsk between the Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Kartli and Kakheti (Georgia).
August 5 - Mount Asama erupts, causing turmoil in Edo period Japan.
September 3 - American Revolutionary War ends: Treaty of Paris - A treaty between the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain is signed in Paris, ending the war.
November 2 - In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his "Farewell Address to the Army".
November 21 - In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, marquis d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight (flight time: 25 minutes, Maximum height: 5* miles).
November 25 - American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
December 4 - At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, US General George Washington formally bids his officers farewell.



Yup! Think that about covers it

Answer 7

You're a reasonably intelligent person. Do thge math; look at the date; and figure it out.

Having someone else do this simple exercise FOR YOU won't help you at all. It will just confirm you in a path of laziness that will compromise your future.

Do the work! Grow up to be useful, not dull.

Answer 8

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what happened four score and before 1863 please help!?

Answer 9

You know what I think is ironic? One of the postings here, chastises the questioner for having asked, implying that they should read it from the textbook.

Why? Am I not allowed to "just ask somebody"? Is the exercise about getting the answer, or is it about "learning to look in a book"? Suppose I were blind. How would that idea work? Suppose I left my textbook in my locker. Am I forbidden to get the info anywhere else? Is google illegal too?

Answer 10

Lincoln's reference is to 1776.