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The Nation Torn Apart

The Nation Torn Apart. UNIT 5. Preview—Mind Map. Trace the silhouette of your own head. Inside the silhouette, record any ideas, images, words, symbols, or personal connections you have, related to the Civil War. Trace these on the board….

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The Nation Torn Apart

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  1. The Nation Torn Apart UNIT 5

  2. Preview—Mind Map Trace the silhouette of your own head. Inside the silhouette, record any ideas, images, words, symbols, or personal connections you have, related to the Civil War.

  3. Trace these on the board…

  4. “Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.” - Abraham Lincoln

  5. “There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.” - Sen. Robert Hunter, Virginia

  6. “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because it helps to save the Union. - Abraham Lincoln

  7. “We regard every man in our midst an enemy to the institutions of the South, who does not boldly declare that he believes African slavery to be a social, moral, and a political blessing.” - Southern Newspaper, 1865

  8. “I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.” - Abraham Lincoln, 1858

  9. “We have a wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him nor safely let him go.” - Thomas Jefferson

  10. Assignment: • Take out your Civil War “Mind Map.” • On the top, or bottom, make up your own quote to better help you understand the split-issue going on. • Options: • Anti-slavery • Pro-slavery • Pro-Union • Pro-States Rights / Confederacy • Anti-this or that • What does the possible threat of Civil War mean to you? • Write down your quote!

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