Bell Work

LT: Review notes and other
materials for your Quiz

BW: What day was Emancipation
Proclamation issued? Describe the
54th Regiment?
Bell Work

LT: I will be able to describe the
role of African Americans after the
Emancipation Proclamation.

BW: Are African Americans
allowed to join the Union Army
before the Emancipation
Proclamation? Write 3 facts from
CNN Student News
Bell work

LT: I will be previewing new content that lead to the Fall of the
Confederacy

BW: Write down three facts from the CNN Student News
Bell Work

LT: I will be able to describe the
impact of the Emancipation
Proclamation

BW: What is the Emancipation
Proclamation ? How do you think it
affected the ongoing war? Do
you think people opposed it if so
who?
Bell Work

LT: I will be able to describe the impact of the Emancipation
Proclamation

BW: Did the Emancipation Proclamation set slaves free everywhere
?? Write down three facts from CNN Student News
The Emancipation Proclamation

Abolitionist started pushing for the
outlawing of slavery everywhere
in the U.S.

Lincoln feared if he did not have
the constitutional authority to
outlaw slavery.

In his struggle to keep the union
together, Lincoln did not want to
anger the border states / many
people in the north opposed the
emancipation

0n January, 1, 1863 Lincoln issued
the Emancipation Proclamation
which declared that all slaves in
Confederate-held territory were
free.
Think pair share


Predict what the reactions of at
least two different groups might
be to the emancipation

People in the north

People in the south

Union soldiers

Confederate soldiers
What effect did the Emancipation
Proclamation have on the Union
cause?
The Emancipation Proclamation

The President is commander in chief
of all armed forces.

What does that mean take a min to
discuss is at your table

Lincoln believed that the constitution
did not give him the authority to free
all slaves.

Freeing the slaves in the south
weakened the confederacy and
could be seen as a military action

The civil war was now being fought to
free millions of Americans from slavery

Many people were upset that Lincoln
had not freed all enslaved people
including those in the border states
Video
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http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/emancipationproclamation

http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/american-civilwar-history/videos/civil-war
Five Finger Re-tell

Your task: use an outline of your hand to
summarize the notes

You should draw an out line of your hand on
the page, label and answer the questions

Thumb- characters- who was in the notes??

Forefinger- setting- Where and when did the
events take place?

Middle finger- Sequence of Events-What
happened in the beginning, the middle, the
end?

Ring finger- Problem- What was the problem in
the reading?

Pinky- Solution- How was the problem solved in
the reading?

Palm-Theme or main idea-What was the main
idea of the reading?
Vocabulary

Your task: your are responsible for
defining the following terms.

They can be located on pages
536, 542, 548, 558

Emancipation proclamation

54th Massachusetts Volunteers

Emancipate

Copperheads

Battle of Gettysburg

Siege of Vicksburg

Sherman’s March to Sea

Appomattox Court House

John Wilkes Booth

Thirteenth Amendment
Crossword Puzzle

Your task: Create a crossword puzzle using
important people, concepts, terms, and events
from the Civil War. You may need to check you
notes

Choose ten people, places, events, from the
civil war

Use scratch paper to figure out how you can
write the words in crisscross combinations

Copy the finished blank grid onto you
notebook page, numbering your across and
down words

Write a clue for each of your ten items ( fill in
the blank, question, definition

Provide and answer key
Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation proclamation
His first challenge was that the
U.S. Constitution did not prohibit
slavery. Individual states could
outlaw slavery, but not the U.S.
Government.
Emancipation proclamation
Lincoln used his background as a
lawyer to come up with a solution
more or less based on the
following questions that I would
like you to answer:
African American Soldiers

Fredrick Douglas had argued for the
recruitment of African-American soldiers
since the start of the war.

By the wars end about 180,000 black
soldiers wore the blue uniform of the
Union Army.

African-American soldiers were organized
in 166 all-black regiments usually lead by
white officers

African American soldiers were paid less
some accepted no pay

Many white officers started out with racist
views that changed over time.
th
54
Regiment

The 54th regiment became famous in
July 1863, when it led a heroic
attack on Fort Wagner in south
Carolina

Two sons of Frederick Douglas joined
the 54th regiment

The confederate government
threatened to execute them or
return them to slavery if captured

The emancipation proclamation was
one sign that the was brining
dramatic change to the North and
the South.
th
54
Regiment

What differences do you see
between the recruits (probably
runaway slaves) on the left and
the U.S.C.T. soldiers on the right?

Black recruits in Charleston from
the April 1, 1865 issue of Harper's
Weekly.
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54
regiment

Your task: sketch a statue or
building to recognize the 54th
regiment.

You should

Be thoughtful, and reflect the
person/ event

Include an explanation of
every feature of your
monument and how it relates
to the person/ event

Write a complete sentences
explaining where you would
locate your monument and
why.
th
54
Regiment