PC 1 Slavery -Lincoln and Emancipation Proclomation-Student Program

8/2/2019 PC 1 Slavery -Lincoln and Emancipation Proclomation-Student Program

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Educating Young People about the Constitution

www.BillofRightsInstitute.org

Presidents and the ConstitutionSlavery and the ConstitutionLincoln and the Emancipation

Proclamation


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Presidents and the Constitution Resources

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Slavery is a terrible fact of AmericanHistory. But on both sides of this issue youhad people and especially political leaderswho believed they could settle or endslavery once and for all.

What you might have done to settle theslavery issue and avoid a civil war.

Directions: Read Dr. Stuart Leibigers

essay on pages 68-70. Underline orhighlight the facts you think areimportant.


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Slavery and the Constitution

Constitutional Connection Activity

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Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation

Objectives Trace the development of

Lincolns decision to issuethe EmancipationProclamation.

Analyze the Proclamationssignificance as a turningpoint in the developmentof the nation.

Evaluate Lincolns

understanding of theEmancipationProclamation as an act of

justice, warranted by theConstitution, upon military

necessity.

Critical Engagement Question

Did President AbrahamLincoln have theconstitutional power tofree the slaves in theConfederacy?


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Background/Homework

Handout A: Abraham Lincoln and The EmancipationProclamation (critical thinking questions next slide)


Map of U.S. stateswith theirallegiances declared


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Critical Thinking Questions

1. In 1861, what did Lincoln saywas the primary object of thewar?

2. What made Lincoln decide thatemancipation was a militarynecessity?

3. Why did Lincoln refuse to freethe slaves until it was a

military necessity?


4. How many slaves were freed by the Proclamation? How manyformer slaves joined the Union side after the Proclamation?

5. In what ways was the Emancipation Proclamation a turning

point in the course of the war?6. See Handout A


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Warm Up

Handout B: Setting the

Scene

Narrator

James

William

President Lincoln


Abraham Lincoln Inauguration, 1861


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Activity

In what ways was the Emancipation Proclamation a turning pointin the development of the nation?


The act makes clearthat the lives of ourheroes have not been

sacrificed in vain. Itmakes a victory of ourdefeats. Ralph WaldoEmerson (1862)

We show our sympathywith slavery by emancipatingslaves where we cannot reach

them and holding them inbondage where we can setthem free. William Seward,Secretary of State (1863)

[The EmancipationProclamation was]the central act of myadministration [and]the great event of thenineteenth century.President Lincoln(1865)

I cannot swallow wholethe view of Lincoln as the

Great Emancipator.Anyone who actually

reads the EmancipationProclamation knows it wasmore a military necessitythan a clarion call for

justice. Senator BarackObama (2005)


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Activity II

What would you have heard ifyou were in the crowd atLincolns inauguration?

Evaluate the Lincolnpresidency in the years: May, 1863 May, 1864 May, 1865

Do Lincolns views stayconsistent or change over time?



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Wrap Up

And upon this act, sincerelybelieved to be an act of justice,warranted by theConstitution, upon militarynecessity, I invoke theconsiderate judgment ofmankind, and the graciousfavor of Almighty God.

Is this quote: An act of justice?

Warranted by theConstitution?

A military necessity?


EmancipationProclamation


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Homework

Read the following quote from LincolnsAnnual Message to Congress onDecember 1, 1862. Write twoparagraphs explaining the meaning ofthe following phrases:

We cannot escape history the last best hope of earth


The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormypresentFellow citizens, we cannot escape historyin giving freedomto the slave, we assure freedom to the freehonorable alike in what wegive, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the lastbest hope of Earth.

Campaign Poster for AbrahamLincoln 1860


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Extension

Research Lincoln and his times. Make a timeline to reflect additional significant constitutional

questions that arose during the Lincoln Presidency. Consider such issues as: suspension of habeas corpus,

presidential pardons, and separation of powers as the President

and Congress planned for Reconstruction.


Documents

PC 1 Slavery -Lincoln and Emancipation Proclomation-Student Program