The address was given in 1863. A score is 20 years. When Lincoln begins “four score and seven years ago”, what year is he referring to and which document is he referring to when he speaks of “all men are created equal”?Towards to end, he states that he is resolved that the dead of the Civil War “shall not have died in vain”. What does he mean by this?Towards the end, he writes of a “new birth of freedom”. According to President Lincoln, what is the Civil War now about? Think about who was not free before it started and who is going to be newly freed.