Warm Up - Close Read - Map - Cool Down

Pre-read Warm Up & Close Read & Post-read Cooldown

1) Pre Reading & Project Image
a) What was it?
b) What led up to Proclamation?
c) What 2 advantages was Lincoln hoping to gain from it?
2) Class discussion
a) Observations
b) What is the point of this political cartoon?
3) Read as Class
a) Highlight
4) Read Individually & Mark-up the Text
a) Circle words dont understand
b) Comment & Question
5) Answer in groups of 4
a) Define words
b) Answer questions
6) Class go over Questions
7) Class into 4 groups
a) Each receive a poster with the post reading questions
i)
Post Reading
(1) What was it?
(2) What battle led to Proclamation?
(3) What advantages was Lincoln hoping to gain from it?
(4) Do you think it helped or hurt the war effort? Was it right to do?
b) Need to write and draw the following info
i)
Title
ii)
Answer Question
iii)
Draw Answer
iv)
3 Word description
v)
Quote from the text (1 & 4 need relevant quote to question)
vi)
Frayer Model on separate paper then glue
c) Groups explain their poster

Map (Pre Label: Richmond, DC, Charleston, New Orleans, Philadelphia)

1) Each student gets a scavenger Hunt worksheet
2) Each student exchanges 1 of 8 pieces of the map with each other to complete the map/timeline/chart

Good Morning!
Please Take out
1) A blank piece of paper
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?

The Emancipation Proclamation

Vocabular
y

Questions

January 1, 1863

Repress

Where does Lincoln state

slavery will be abolished?

By the President of the United States of America:

"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-three, all 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.
"That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate
the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall

Testimony

Which branch does Lincoln

say will designate the states
that are in rebellion?

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

What is Lincoln saying he will

list by virtue of the power
vested in Commander-inChief?

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

What slave states are

missing? Why do you think
that is?

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

Who will maintain the freedom

of the emancipated slaves?

freedom of said persons.

And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence,
unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when
allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.

Abstain

And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be

What kind of wages does

Lincoln expect emancipated
slaves to labor faithfully for?

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.

Where else does Lincoln say

emancipated slaves can be
received?

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

Affixed

WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.

Civil War Battles: Map, Timeline Scavenger, & Hunt

Timeline
Date
Event

Scavenger Hunt Directions

Hello fellow Union Scouts and spies! Complete the Scavenger Hunt

When you find a new piece of the map

1) On the map, mark either a blue X or a red X on the location of the battlefield to signify a Union (blue) victory or a
Confederate (red) victory.
2) Label the battle on the map (if unlabeled) and on the timeline
3) Date the battle on the timeline
4) Fill out the chart below!

Aggr
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Winner

Important Fact(s)!

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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.