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The speech begins, "fourscore and seven years ago…" if the year the speech was given is 1863, and one score is twenty years, what year was lincoln referring to?

The speech begins, "fourscore and seven years ago…" if the year the speech was given is 1863, and one score is twenty years, what year was lincoln referring to?
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The speech begins, "fourscore and seven years ago…" if the year the speech was given is 1863, and one score is twenty years, what year was lincoln referring to?

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He was referring to the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776
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