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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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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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