Summarize the opening of the Gettysburg Address in simple modern English. 

"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. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this."


Answer: 87 years ago, we created this country so that people could be equal. We will see if a country like this can survive civil war. It's right that we remember people who died fighting for this country and are buried here.