1. 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?”

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

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

4. ** 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?

5. 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

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

7. 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.

8. 2nd Era of “Reconstruction” The Civil Rights Era (1954 – 1968)

9. Worksheet Questions on Reconstruction