Download Learning Goals: Analyze how the Emancipation Proclamation

• Learning Goals:
1. Analyze how the
Emancipation Proclamation
affected the war effort.
2. Identify contributions
African American soldiers
made to the Union cause.
The picture is the 54th Massachusetts at the Battle of
Fort Wagner in Charleston, South Carolina.
• Journal Question:
You have been wounded in a Civil War
battle. Describe your thoughts from the
time the bullet hits you until you
have been fully treated by the medical
corps. Choose any one of the battles we have
discussed.
Journal Question:
Explanation - Inflation is an increase in
prices and decrease in the value of
money. Inflation occurs when prices
rise and the purchasing power of
money falls. Imagine that the price of
everything sold today were to double.
Describe in detail how your life
would change.
1. Abraham Lincoln issued
the Emancipation
Proclamation because
he hoped to weaken the
South’s ability to fight
the war.
2. Lincoln issued
the Emancipation
Proclamation
after Antietam
because he
wanted to be in a
position of
strength when he
freed the slaves.
3. The
Emancipation
Proclamation
made the
Civil War a
war of
liberation.
An Emancipation Day
parade.
4. The 54th Massachusetts
Volunteers became famous when
they led a heroic attack on Fort
Wagner in South Carolina.
Sergeant John Rawlins
5. Lincoln handled Northern
opposition to the war by having
protestors arrested and holding
citizens without formal charges.
6. In July 1863,
anger over
conscription and
racial tensions led
to draft riots in
New York City that
killed over 1000
people.
The Statue of
Liberty and the
Brooklyn Bridge
had not been
created yet.
7. Throughout the
Civil War, the role of
women in both the
North and the South
increased in nursing,
factory jobs, and
spying. Women were
not hired to work in
the government.
The Statue of
Liberty and the
Brooklyn Bridge
had not been
created yet.
8. The South
suffered
extreme
inflation during
the Civil War.
For example, a
dozen eggs
could cost as
much as $6.00
and a quart of
milk was $10.00.