2. Emancipation Proclamation
• Issued after the battle of Antietam in 1862
• Became effective January 1, 1863
• Freed slaves in located in rebelling states
(seceded Southern states)
• Made destruction of slavery a Northern war
objective
• Discouraged any interference of foreign
governments
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6. Gettysburg Address
• Lincoln described the Civil War as a struggle to
preserve a nation
• That was dedicated to the proposition that “all
men are created equal” and that was ruled by
a government “of the people, by the people,
and for the people”
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7. Thoughts on the War
• He believed that
America was “one
nation,” not a collection
of sovereign states.
• Southerners felt that
states entered the
union freely and could
leave freely
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8. Still Thinkin’ About War
• Lincoln believed that
secession was illegal and
the Southern state never
truly left the Union.
• Lincoln wanted to restore
the Union quickly, “with
malice towards none,
with charity for all…to
bind up the nation’s
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9. Lincoln’s Assassination
• On the night of April 14th
President Lincoln attended a
play at Ford’s Theater in Washington DC
• John Wilkes Booth, an actor & southern sympathizer,
shot Lincoln during the play
• Lincoln died the next morning
• He was the first president to be assassinated
• This will leave the north enraged, and wanting to
punish the south
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11. The Aftermath
• Over 620,000 casualties
• The south is destroyed, economically,
politically, socially, and physically
• The problem now is how do you rebuild the
nation
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12. Civil War Amendments
• 13th
Amendment- Slavery was abolished in the
United States
• 14th
Amendment- Equal rights under the law
for all Americans
• 15th
Amendment- Voting rights were
guaranteed regardless of “race, color, or
previous condition of servitude”
13. Things to ponder
• How to you treat the South?
• What do you do with the freed slaves?
• How much do you help them?
• Who pays for reconstruction?
• What will be the long term effects of
reconstruction?
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