According to the How Do We Know? video in section 14.6,the opening line of the Gettysburg Address referred to the __________.

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The opening line of the Gettysburg Address is "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." This is a direct reference to the opening line of the Declaration of Independence which begins with "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them..."

According to the How Do We Know? Video in Section