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Read these excerpts from President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
The speech begins as follows: “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. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.”
The speech ends as follows: “It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—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.”
What is the MOST LIKELY reason that Lincoln begins his speech by mentioning the founding of the nation eighty-seven years before?

A to assure the audience that the nation’s founding principles would remain unthreatened as long as the war’s end is hastened

B to implore the audience to compare the enthusiastic patriotism that was evidenced in the early years of the nation’s founding with the courage of the current patriots

C to remind the audience that though the nation’s founding principles are endangered, the effort to preserve them will continue

D to convince the audience that the founders’ emphasis on equality among the colonists was equally important to citizens on both sides of the nation’s struggle