The line 'Four score and seven years ago' appears in which address?

• A. The Gettysburg Address
• B. The Emancipation Proclamation
• C. The Constitution
• D. The Bill of Rights

Answer: (A)

That line is from the Gettysburg Address delivered by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg. Lincoln uses “four score and seven years ago” to point back to the founding of the United States about 87 years earlier (1776), reminding listeners that the nation’s ideals of liberty were established long before the Civil War. By linking the present struggle to the founding, he frames the war as a test of whether a government “of the people, by the people, for the people” can endure. The other options do not contain that phrasing: the Emancipation Proclamation is a wartime executive order, and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are foundational documents that do not include this line.