What part of speech is the italicized word in the sentence below?

What part of speech is the italicized word in the sentence below?

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

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UPON is a preposition.

It starts the phrase "upon this continent."

http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/prepositions-list.htm
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