What happened four score and before 1863 please help!?
~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 constitutio
