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Period 5, Day 4: Rethinking Emancipation - SY23

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Note from the author:
Content Objective: I will be able to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses that led Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.

Standard Objective: I will be able to draw reasonable inferences and logical conclusions from text.

Absent? Just want to review the guided notes? Slides are linked here.
Content Objective: I will be able to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses that led Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.

Standard Objective: I will be able to draw reasonable inferences and logical conclusions from text.

Absent? Just want to review the guided notes? Slides are linked here.
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Did you know any of these facts prior to taking APUSH? Which one is most interesting to you?


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What do you notice about how President Lincoln changed over the course of the Civil War?

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According to the figure, before the Civil War began in 1861,

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While the Emancipation Proclamation _______ free all slaves, it did prompt thousands of slaves to join the Union army and fundamentally change the nature of the Civil War into a moral cause against slavery. By war’s end, some _______ blacks served in the Union army, which was about _______ of total enlistments. Units, however, were segregated and Blacks were still paid less.
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More than _______ soldiers died in action or disease, which is equivalent to 2% of the entire nation’s population and the death toll of _______ subsequent wars combined.

The cost of the war totaled _______ , and devastation to the land and economy in the South.

Although the Civil War officially ended at Appomattox on April 9, _______ , it wasn’t until June 19, 1865 that General Lee finally arrived at Galveston, Texas to notify the last enslaved African Americans of their freedom. Today, we celebrate this day as _______ , which most recently became a national holiday in 2021 due to the activism of #BLM protestors.

Applying Knowledge: Well done! Let’s now apply the new knowledge and vocabulary that we just learned to today’s topic.

In our study of U.S. History, we care most about the causes and effects of major wars. Hence, we will be skipping over most of Chapter 20 and all of Chapter 21, which covers the Civil War.

tldr; The North wins, and the Union is preserved. The Confederacy loses, and the South is nearly wrecked by war. President Lincoln is assassinated.
The first seven Confederate States to secede from the Union were South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. Shortly after, Virginia, Arkansas North Carolina, and Tennessee followed suit.
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Lincoln's initial declaration that the North fought only to preserve the Union and not to abolish slavery

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Why do you think Lincoln only freed the slaves in the red (see map below)? Why didn't Lincoln free the slaves in the Border States?

While President Lincoln is known for freeing the slaves in the Emancipation Proclamation, he only freed slaves in the Confederate South [red].

Slavery was still allowed in the Border States [brown] until the 13th Amendment formally abolished slavery from the Union.
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Abraham Lincoln was able to overcome his political problems more readily than Jefferson Davis because he

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Exit Ticket: What does the New York Herald mean when it says, "In striking Abraham Lincoln and his kindly disposed Secretary of State the assassins struck at the best friends in the government to the pro-state rebels of the South"?

Explain the implication about Lincoln's relationship with the South behind this line in your own words.

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Exit Ticket: Please evaluate how well you understood today’s lesson on a scale from 1 to 4: