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Class Starter: What caused disunion?
- Research an event and make the case for it being the most important factor in causing the secession of the Southern states. It is crucial that you establish cause/effect relationships. You'll have about 5 minutes to research and craft your position
- In groups, you will have 1 minute to make your case and 1 minute for group to deliberate/offer feedback
- Take a group vote after the last person goes. If there is a tie, do a runoff between the top two. Do not vote for yourself.
- The winner from each group will present to the class, where we will follow the same procedures as above.
Recap: Explain the political causes of the Civil War.
Practice Questions: p. 263 4-8; p. 266 SAQ 3
Quiz Today!
Ch. 20 Outline
- What advantages did the U.S. have over the Confederacy at the start of the Civil War?
- How did the Union and the Confederacy mobilize their economies and societies for the war effort?
- What home front opposition to the war was faced by both sides?
Lecture: Civil War
Emancipation Proclamation Analysis
January 1, 1863
"[A]ll persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom….
Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January…order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit:
Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the…City of New Orleans) Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts, are for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.
And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons….
"[A]ll persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom….
Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January…order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit:
Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the…City of New Orleans) Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts, are for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.
And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons….
1. What event allowed Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation? Why did he need that event to happen?
2. Who was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation?
3. How did the federal government determine who was or was not in rebellion against the United States?
4. Why are some areas exempted from emancipation?
5. Account for the Emancipation Proclamation as a tool for foreign policy.
6. Account for the Emancipation Proclamation as a tool for military policy.
Closer: Explain how Lincoln's leadership during the Civil War impacted American ideals over the course of the war.
On Deck
Next Topic: Reconstruction
Ch. 22 Outline due next class
Meeting of the Minds due in two class periods (essay required this time)
Test/LEQ in three class periods
Ch. 22 Outline due next class
Meeting of the Minds due in two class periods (essay required this time)
Test/LEQ in three class periods