Download Emancipation Proclamation. Battle of Gettysburg

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Emancipation Proclamation / Battle of Gettysburg
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LT: Students will be able to analyze primary docs and quotes regarding Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation.
LT: Students will be able to answer questions regarding the Battle of Gettysburg while watching a video
LT: Students will be able to analyze and reword the Gettysburg Address given by President Lincoln.
Directions: Read the 1-3 quotes or statements below and discuss each one with your group members, making sure each person
understands the passage. Each deals with the before, during and after of the Emancipation Proclamation
1. When urged to transform the war into an abolitionist crusade*, Lincoln in 1862 with responded:
“My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy Slavery. If I could save the
Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by
freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that… I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official
duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.”
–Abraham Lincoln.
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2. Emancipation Proclamation:
“All persons held as slaves within any state, or designed part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against
the United States, shall be then, thenceforth, and forever free…and upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice,
warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of
almighty God”
-Abraham Lincoln
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3. Reactions to the Emancipation Proclamation:
“Men squealed, women fainted, dogs barked, white and colored people shook hands, songs were sung, and by this time
cannons began to fire at the navy yard…Great processions of colored and white men marched to and fro and passed in front of
the White House. . . .The President came to the window…and thousands told him, if he would come out of that palace, they
would hug him to death….It was indeed a time of times, and nothing like it will ever be seen again in this life.
-Henry M. Turner
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Do not flip to this side yet!
Quiz
Directions: You will individually take this quiz when directed to.
1) True / False Lincoln initially wanted to free the slaves at the beginning of his presidency.
2) True / False The Civil War was originally about bringing the country back together and not about the idea of slavery.
3) According to the first quote above, which of these statements is true about Lincoln’s opinion on slavery prior to the
Emancipation Proclamation?
a) Lincoln would do anything to abolish slavery.
b) Lincoln did not want to abolish slavery unless forced to.
c) Lincoln would do anything, including abolish slavery, to keep the country together
d) Lincoln originally did not want to keep the country together, or preserve the union.
4) The Emancipation Proclamation:
a) set free the slaves in the northern states
b) split the country into 2 separate nations
c) set free the slaves in the Confederate States
d) rejoined the Confederate States with the Union.
5) True / False The Emancipation Proclamation made the war about slavery.
6) According to the 3rd reading, the reaction in the north to the Emancipation Proclamation was:
a) rushed the White House with anger
b) Rejoiced in happiness
c) slaves rushed to the north with their freedom
d) riots broke out between Northerners or Southerners