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When you first get in…. Add LO and DQ to page 63 LO: Identify the effects of the Emancipation Proclamation List African Americans role in the Civil War DQ: 1. What did the Emancipation Proclamation achieve? 2. How did African Americans contribute to the Civil War? Table of Contents:
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When you first get in… • Add LO and DQ to page 63 LO: • Identify the effects of the Emancipation Proclamation • List African Americans role in the Civil War DQ: 1. What did the Emancipation Proclamation achieve? 2. How did African Americans contribute to the Civil War? Table of Contents: Pg. 62 You Be The Character 10/21/13 Pg. 63 Emancipation Proclamation 10/21/13 Materials: Textbooks
What is Frederick Douglass suggesting in this quote? “A fight against slaveholders, without fighting against slavery, is but a half-hearted business, and paralyzes the hands engaged in it… Fire must be met with water…War for the destruction of liberty must be met with war for the destruction of slavery” --Frederick Douglass
Emancipation • the act of freeing or state of being freed
Proclamation • an official announcement
Emancipation Proclamation • Issued by Lincoln 1863 • Freed all slaves in Confederate territory • Freed very little slaves • Many slaves lived in areas too far for Union troops to enforce • Turns Civil War into a war for freedom
Response to… • Abolitionists: thrilled, but believed it should’ve gone further; upset that Lincoln had no freed ALL slaves • Northern Dems: angered by president’s decision; claimed it would make war last longer by continuing to anger the South • Union Soldiers: welcomed it • White Southerners: rage; mad that slaves were running away • African Americans: rushed to join Union army; showed great courage on the battlefield & wore uniforms with pride
How did slaves resist? Pg. 509 Create a list from your reading…
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