Question

Re-read this excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address:

Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Lincoln is making an allusion to -

Question 5 options:

the Bible


the Constitution


the Declaration of Independence


the Magna Carta

Answer 1

Lincoln is making an allusion to **the Declaration of Independence**. The phrase "that all men are created equal" directly references a central tenet of the Declaration, which asserts the equality of all individuals as a foundational principle of the United States.