The 16th President Learning Activity

A Learning On-Line Activity by Howard Taylor

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Learning On-Line by Howard Taylor for his G.E. students at Charleston, Il, and all other students of Lincoln

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The Emancipation Proclamation

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First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln
by Francis Bicknell Carpenter (1830 - 1900)
 

Go to A House Divided: Emancipation Proclamation for a visual story of its draft and enactment.  Answer the questions below:

1.  When did President Lincoln start the Emancipation Proclamation, and when did he release it to the public?  Why did he wait?

2.  Up until the time of releasing the Emancipation Proclamation, had the Union Forces attained any great victories?  What was our first victory (won battle)?

3.  The Emancipation Proclamation freed a lot of slaves.  What slaves were freed?  Which slaves were not freed?

4.  What were the border states that remained in the Union, and had slavery?

5.  Did the Emancipation Proclamation free the border state slaves?  Why did Lincoln choose not to free their slaves?

6.  How did Lincoln make the freeing of slaves legal? The U.S. Constitution had laws in it that made slavery legal?

7.  Why did northern states not allow slavery?  How did they get by "not" allowing slavery?

8.  Did all of Lincoln's cabinet members support the Emancipation Proclamation?  Which ones did, and which ones didn't?

 

 


 
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