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did he say about secession? (Hint: Did he encourage it or speak against it?)
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b. The Emancipation Proclamation - When was it read? (Hint: Month, Day, Year) What was it supposed to do? (Hint:
Who was it going to free and where?) Why did it not work? (Hint: Why couldn’t it be enforced?)
c. Gettysburg Address (p. 508) - What did he express in the speech? (Hint: The field at Gettysburg is the final
resting place...) Where did he think government should come from? (Hint: It’s the last line of the speech.)
d.
Second Inaugural Address (p. 509)- What did he recall in this speech? (Hint: It’s part of “setting the stage.”) What
did he urge citizens to do? (Hint: Take “a closer look” at Malice toward None.)
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Jefferson Davis - What was his role during the Civil War? (Hint: He was President of...during the Civil War.)
a. Inaugural address - (Hint: WRITE THIS - His inaugural address focused on the right of states to secede and
willingness to fight.)
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Ulysses Grant - What was his role during the Civil War? (Hint: He was a general in what army?)
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Robert E. Lee - What was his role during the Civil War? (Hint: He was a general in what army? NOT the SAME
as GRANT.)
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William Carney - WRITE THIS - A runaway slave, he was a member of 54th Massachusetts infantry. He was
awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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Phillip Bazaar - WRITE THIS - Chilean-born member of the US Navy during the Civil War. Awarded the
Congressional Medal of Honor.
People of the Civil War
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Abraham Lincoln - What was his role during the Civil War? (He was President of
the United States/the Union during the Civil War.)
a. First Inaugural Address - What did he say about slavery in the south? (Assured
southerners that slavery was lawful where it existed.) What did he say about
secession? (He made the case that states could not secede and that the Union
must be preserved.)
b. The Emancipation Proclamation - When was it read? (January 1, 1863) What was it
supposed to do? (It was supposed to free slaves only in Confederate-controlled
areas.) Why did it not work? (Union forces were unable to reach those
Confederate areas to enforce the proclamation.)
c. Gettysburg Address (p. 508) - What did he express in the speech? (Honored
UNION soldiers who had given their lives for freedom and unity.) Where did he
think government should come from? (Believed in a government by the people
and for the people.)
d. Second Inaugural Address (p. 509)- What did he recall in this speech? (Talked
about spirit of healing the nation’s wounds at a time when the end of the war
was within sight.) What did he urge citizens to do? (He focused on reunification
and NOT punishment of the South for the war.)
Jefferson Davis - What was his role during the Civil War? (He was President of the
Confederate States of America/ Confederacy during the Civil War.)
a.Inaugural address - (His inaugural address focused on the right of states to
secede and willingness to fight.)
Ulysses Grant - What was his role during the Civil War? (He was a general in the
Union army, the army of the United States, the North.)
Robert E. Lee - What was his role during the Civil War? (He was a general in the
Confederate army, the army of the Confederate States, the South.)
William Carney - WRITE THIS - A runaway slave, he was a member of 54th
Massachusetts infantry. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Phillip Bazaar - WRITE THIS - Chilean-born member of the US Navy during the Civil
War. Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.