Social Studies Strands Thomas Miller

Seventh Grade Social Studies: Gettysburg Address

Table of Contents Strands 1-8 in order, clearly labeled Objectives Materials Websites Lincoln Facts Presentable slides on Lincoln, the civil war, and the Gettysburg Address.

Strand #1 HISTORYHISTORY –November 19, 1863 –A nation is at war, most brutal battle had just taken place. –Civil war, brother against brother, father against son.

Strand #2 PEOPLE IN SOCIETIESPEOPLE IN SOCIETIES –The people were torn by war. –The identity was less by familial lines and more by view points of the time. –Groups and institutions would include the confederacy and the union.

Strand #3 GeographyGeography –Gettysburg, Pennsylvania –At the time, few global connections could be made, today this is more of a national gathering spot. –Map:

Strand #4 ECONOMICSECONOMICS –This time and place has little connection to economics. –The north did have a much stronger economy than the south at this time.

Strand #5 GovernmentGovernment –This time, and this event have a great impact on the formation of American national government today. –Had things not developed the way they had then, we would not be the way we are today.

Strand #6 Citizenship Rights and ResponsibilitiesCitizenship Rights and Responsibilities –I feel that it is the responsibility of all Americans to understand the basics of their backgrounds.

Strand #7 Social Studies Skills and MethodsSocial Studies Skills and Methods –Knowledge of what happened and when and why it is important to you today.

Strand #8 Science Technology and SocietyScience Technology and Society –Use of technology to teach information. –Websites come later

Objectives To Achieve an understanding of Why the Gettysburg Address was so crucial and why the war it was given during was so crucial.

Materials 1 computer (with power point) 1 projection screen 1 projector

Websites s.htmhttp://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/al16/speeches/getty s.htm vortraege/lincoln/gett/lincgett.htmhttp:// vortraege/lincoln/gett/lincgett.htm peeches/gettysburg.htmhttp://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/s peeches/gettysburg.htm 83.htmlhttp:// 83.html

Fast Facts about Lincoln Took place on November 19, 1863 Civil War began in Lincoln predicted the civil war in his inaugural speech. Civil war began when the south attacked Fort Sumter. Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president.

Image of Lincoln Go to images, type in Abraham Lincoln, click searchwww.google.com

Quotations of Lincoln "Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, "Letter To Henry L. Pierce and Others" (April 6, 1859), p. 376.

Quotes "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, (August 1, 1858?), p. 532.

quotes "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it." Lincoln's Cooper Institute Address, February 27, 1860.

Gettysburg Address quote: The Gettysburg Address Nov. 19, 1863 Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who died here that the nation might live. This we may, in all propriety do. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have hallowed it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is rather for us the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."

Lincoln as a President Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it." Lincoln thought secession illegal, and was willing to use force to defend Federal law and the Union. When Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter and forced its surrender, he called on the states for 75,000 volunteers. Four more slave states joined the Confederacy but four remained within the Union. The Civil War had begun. The son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Lincoln had to struggle for a living and for learning

Lincoln Sketches his own life "I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all."

Friends on Lincoln: Lincoln made extraordinary efforts to attain knowledge while working on a farm, splitting rails for fences, and keeping store at New Salem, Illinois. He was a captain in the Black Hawk War, spent eight years in the Illinois legislature, and rode the circuit of courts for many years. His law partner said of him, "His ambition was a little engine that knew no rest."

Family He married Mary Todd, and they had four boys, only one of whom lived to maturity. In 1858 Lincoln ran against Stephen A. Douglas for Senator. He lost the election, but in debating with Douglas he gained a national reputation that won him the Republican nomination for President in 1860.

Lincolns Party As President, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization. Further, he rallied most of the northern Democrats to the Union cause. On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy.

Re-election Lincoln won re-election in 1864, as Union military triumphs heralded an end to the war. In his planning for peace, the President was flexible and generous, encouraging Southerners to lay down their arms and join speedily in reunion.

Lincoln Quiz When did Lincoln Threaten the Civil War? Quote the Gettysburg Address. Give another Quote of Lincolns and explain it in your own words Who did Lincoln Marry? How did Lincolns Friends describe him? What party did Lincoln make strong? Re-create Lincolns life sketch. Was Lincoln re-elected? If so, what year? How many boys did Lincoln have? When and how did Lincoln Free the Slaves?

Artistic Rendition You have seen pictures of Abraham Lincoln, you may either re-create one of them, create your own picture of him, write a poem about him, make a song for him, or any other artistic Endeavor which you see fit.

Strand #1 Activities 1. Make a time line of the civil war. 2.list 5 changes from that time to our time. 3.write a story placing yourself as Lincolns right hand man, tell me what this was like. 4.Would you want to have lived back then, why or why not? 5.What existed then, that still exists now?

Strand #2 Activities 1. Discuss how you think the people then would act. 2. Do you think you would have gotten along with someone from back then? Why or why not? 3. How do you think people are similar and different from then to now? 4. What do you think your family was like back then? 5. Are you happy to be alive now, or would you have rather lived back then?

Strand #3 Activities 1. Draw a map of your town back then. 2. Draw a map of what you think the country looked like back then. 3. Draw a map of your town then, next to a map of your town now. 4. Make a three dimensional model of a town in Sketch a picture of the world then, compared to a globe of the world now in the classroom.

Strand #4 Activities 1. go to: And tell me what you find about our economy compared to theirs. 2. The south issued millions of dollars for the war effort, how much does a war effort cost today? 3. If the south spent millions of dollars over 4 years, say they spent 1 million a year, how much did they spend a day, week, month? How does that compare to today. 4. What types of economy’s did the north and south have then? Compare them. 5. Who had a stronger economy us then, or us now?

Strand #5 Activities 1. Describe our government in Describe our government in Compare our government today with our governments of 1861 and Simulate a debate between the president of the north and the president of the south in Name 5 major differences between the government of then and now.

Strand #6 Activities 1. Who were allowed to be citizens in What does the constitution say about citizenship? 3. What do we say about citizenship today? 4. Who are citizens today? Are you? 5. Compare and contrast citizenship today with then.

Strand #7 Activities 1. Review factual material 2. Review speeches and personal accounts of people at that time. 3. Read stories about what happened and why. 4. Give our own accounts on what happened. 5. Relive Debates, acting them out in class.

Strand #8 Activities s.htmhttp://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/al16/speeches/getty s.htm vortraege/lincoln/gett/lincgett.htmhttp:// vortraege/lincoln/gett/lincgett.htm peeches/gettysburg.htmhttp://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/s peeches/gettysburg.htm 83.htmlhttp:// 83.html