VERY Brief presentation about the Emancipation Proclamation and British position. Includes Common Core Practice. For use with the Americans section 11.2.
VERY Brief presentation about the Emancipation Proclamation and British position. Includes Common Core Practice. For use with the Americans section 11.2.
Manchurian Crisis. On September 18, 1931, an explosion destroyed a section of railway track near the city of Mukden. The Japanese, who owned the railway, blamed Chinese nationalists for the incident and used the opportunity to retaliate and invade Manchuria.
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Discontent and Liberty
The road to the revolution
The following slides have images
that connect to this period’s history.
Explore what they have in common.
What events do the refer to?
George Grenville
Organizing the
Resistance
• Farmers organized against colonial
governments in several colonies.
What examples can you find in the
readings?
• Who were the Daughters of Liberty?
• Sons of Liberty:
• Very aggressive
• Strongest in Boston
• Targeted disdain towards
government representatives
The Coercive
(Intolerable)
Acts
Pushed more colonists to
organize a response to
protect their freedoms.
What did each act do? How
did colonists react to them?
First Continental Congress
• Held at Carpenter’s Hall.
• Did not accept the arguments for revolt.
Instead proposed stopping trade with
England until Coercive Acts were lifted.
• Most colonists were pleased with the
proposal from the First Continental
Congress: it was seen as being a
middle-of-the-road action.
• Continental Association was created to
force royal authority to redress their
grievances through an economic
boycott.
• Journals of the Continental Congress:
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lwjc.html
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A R M E D C O N F L I C T
B E G I N S
• Lexington and Concord,
April 19, 1775
• Second Continental
Congress, May 10, 1775
• Breed’s Hill and Bunker Hill,
June 16, 1775
D E C L A R I N G
I N D E P E N D E N C E
The Document (audio reading:
www.npr.org/2011/07/04/137497061/
reading-the-declaration-of-
independence-aloud)
• Thomas Jefferson drafted the first
draft and was helped by John
Adams and Benjamin Franklin
• What arguments did Jefferson
put forth?
• On July 4, 1776, twelve colonies
agreed to the declaration. New
York abstained.
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/04/137497061/reading-the-declaration-of-independence-aloud
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Liberty
What did the colonists mean
when the referred to
“liberty”?
Yankee Doodle:
A Historical Analysis
The Culture of the Revolution
Search the internet for different versions
of the song “Yankee Doodle.”
Further Links to Consider
• http://www.loc.gov/teachers/lyrical/songs/
yankee_doodle.html
• http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?
storyId=4970266
• http://abcnews.go.com/US/yankee-doodle-dandy-
explained-revolutionary-facts/story?id=24314207
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/lyrical/songs/yankee_doodle.html
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4970266
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4970266
http://abcnews.go.com/US/yanke.
1. CHAPTER 16:
The Civil War
Section 4:
Daily Life During the War
2. VOCABULARY
Emancipation: The freeing of the
slaves
Habeas corpus: Constitutional
protection against unlawful
imprisonment
Draft: Forced military service
3. THE EMANCIPATION
PROCLAMATION
At first Lincoln only wanted to
preserve the Union
4. “If I could save the Union without freeing
any slave I would do it, and 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.”
-Abraham Lincoln
5. THE EMANCIPATION
PROCLAMATION
Later he realizes only
emancipation made
sense
Antietam allowed
him to do it
He wrote the
Emancipation
Proclamation
6. Lincoln and his Cabinet after Writing
the Emancipation Proclamation
7. THE EMANCIPATION
PROCLAMATION
• Only freed slaves in rebel territory
• Union didn’t control this area