Reading-Ideas-MyTest-02

This question is related to which competency?

“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.”

Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America's improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787.

The statement “Two hundred and twenty-one years ago” references ________________.

• the Gettysburg Address
• an important date in U.S. history
• an important date in world history
• no particular important time in history