In response to reading the Gettysburg Address, consider the following questions for discussion: Any lines or words stand out? (2) What does it mean, “Four score and seven years ago … a new nation conceived in liberty?” (3) Why do you suppose he says, “The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here?” (4) What does it mean when Lincoln says, “a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth?”

Abraham Lincoln ** Description of birth, upbringing, and education February 12, 1809 - Lincoln is born.   ** Description of birth, upbringing, and education 1842 - Marries Mary Todd Lincoln      1855 & 1859 - Loses legislature’s vote for the Senate for Illinois.    Nov. 6, 1860 - Wins 1860 Presidential Election Sept. 22, 1862 - Issues Emancipation Proclamation ** Enduring objective during the Civil War Nov. 19, 1863 - Delivers the “Gettysburg Address”   Nov. 8, 1864 - Wins 1864 Presidential Election April 9, 1865 - General Lee surrenders April 14, 1865 - Shot by John Wilkes Booth and dies the next day Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln’s Assassination, April 14, 1865 Much Larger Plot … John Wilkes Booth = President Lincoln Lewis Powell = William Seward George Atzerodt = Andrew Johnson

** In response to the video scenes, from Lincoln (2012) write down the following questions and answer them in response to watching the video clips: Questions: Limitations of the Emancipation Proclamation … Authority of States’ Laws … (3) 13th Amendment needed because … (4) What about the depictions of his character and personality … Why the telling of stories?

Why the Civil War was a Revolution? (1) Destruction of the South ¼ of white, male Southerners killed Southern wealth decreases by 60% during 1860’s 1860, total South’s share of national wealth was 30%; by 1870, it’s 12% 1860, average Southerner’s income was 2/3’s of Northerners; by 1870, it’s 2/5’s of a Northerner (2) 620,000 casualties because of the war in a nation of 50 million people (3) 13th Amendment - Slavery no longer existed in the nation

Why was Reconstruction a Revolution? Freedmen’s Bureau Civil Rights Act of 1866 14th Amendment 15th Amendment Political Representation

Reconstruction Era between 1865 to 1877, involving “bringing” the states back into the Union and changing institutions. Was it a success or failure? Tough question.

2nd Era of “Reconstruction” The Civil Rights Era (1954 – 1968)

Worksheet Questions on Reconstruction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJLBrDSTgng