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2) Your homework
...and please start your Warm Up!
Warm Up
1) What was the Emancipation
Proclamation?
2) What led to it?
3) What advantages was Lincoln
hoping to gain from it?
Vocabular
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Questions
January 1, 1863
Repress
Testimony
then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State, or the people
thereof, shall on that day be, in good faith, represented in the Congress of the United
States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters
of such State shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervailing
testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State, and the people thereof, are
not then in rebellion against the United States."
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, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in
accordance with my purpose so to do publicly proclaimed for the full period of one
hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, 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:
Virtue
Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the Parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson,
St. John, St.Charles, St. James Ascension, Assumption, Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Mary,
Proclamation
St. Martin, and Orleans, including 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,
Emancipated
including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the
Abstain
And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be
received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations,
and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
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.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United
Justice
States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty three, and of the Independence of the United States of
America the eighty-seventh.
By the President: ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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POV ASSIGNMENT: Pick a fictitious person who lived through a battle of your choosing and write a journal entry from their
point of view. Include at least 2 facts from the scavenger hunt or your notes and at least 2 vocabulary words from the close
reading. (4-6 sentences)
1 - Fort Sumter - April 1861 - The South attacked Fort Sumter and won. After this Battle Lincoln called
on 75,000 volunteers to suppress the rebellion. This action resulted in four additional southern states
joining the Confederacy.
2 - Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) - July 1861 - The North attacked the South at the river named Bull
Run outside the town of Manassas and lost. This battle showed the North that this wasnt going to be a
short war and the Union (north) did not have the same level of military leadership that the Confederacy
(south) had.
3 - Antietam - September 1862 - The Confederates attacked Maryland at Antietam but the Union was
able to push them back to Virginia. This battle inspired Lincoln to write the emancipation proclamation in
order to destabilize the South and gain European support. This was the bloodiest day.
4 - Fredericksburg - December 1862 - The Union attacked the confederates but were pushed back after
repeatedly suffering heavy losses. President Lincoln was criticized heavily for this attack to a point at
which Lincoln himself wrote, If there is a worse place than hell, I am in it. General Burnside was forced
to step down.
5 - Vicksburg - May 1863 - The Union attacked Vicksburg, the last Confederate city along the Mississippi
River, and won after besieging the city. Capturing this city completed step 2 of Lincolns 3 step
Anaconda Plan; the Union now cut the Confederacy in two by controlling the river.
6 - Gettysburg- July 1863 - The Confederacy attacked the Union at Gettysburg hoping to convince the
wary northerners to agree to peace. However, the South lost the battle. This was the turning point in the
war because General Lee lost one third of his army and could no longer launch attacks against the North.
This was the bloodiest battle (3 day battle).
7 - Shermans March - July December 1864 - The Union sent General Sheridan to take the
Shenandoah Valley (between Virginia and West Virginia) and then sent General Sherman to take the rest
of the South. Sherman was able to take Atlanta, Savannah, Columbia, and Raleigh in his brutal march to
the sea. Under General Grants orders, Sherman conducted Total War, whereby soldiers were ordered
to destroy everything in sight; looting, burning, destroying crops, and slaughtering of animals were all
part of his devastating campaign.
***Mark 4 Xs on your map (1 for Atlanta, Savannah, Columbia, and Raleigh)***
8 - The Appomattox Courthouse - April 1865 - The Union pushed the Confederacy from the virginian
Wilderness to Petersburg and eventually defeated them in Richmond, VA. They suffered heavy losses
that almost equaled the Souths entire army! The war was over but the devastation was to last for years
to come. Families were torn apart and to this day the Civil War remains the bloodiest war in US History.
Two thirds of the 620,000 deaths were from disease while one third resulted from new weaponry. Many
believe the US Civil War to be the first war to use weapons created from the Industrial Revolution.