1. Good morning!
Please get out your Paper 2 Part A response on why the Civil War lasted four years. Be prepared to turn it in.
Please get out any notes you have from the homework reading, and be ready for a short quiz.

2. Civil Liberties & the Civil War
#2 What was the immediate impact of the war?
Limitations on civil liberties during the war
How do we balance freedom & order?
What are we willing to give up in order to get what we want?

3. Questions How are our freedoms limited in the name of security?
Make a list
Are we OK with these limitations? When are they OK & when are they not OK? How do we decide?

4. Vallandigham Speech
Purpose
Origin
Value
Limitations

5. What do we know about … The case of John Merryman?
The case of Clement Vallandigham?
The case of Lamdin Milligan?
What are the fundamental conflicts in these cases?

6. Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, had hundreds arrested & jailed without trial, and shut down newspapers critical of the Union & the war.
Was Lincoln justified?

7. Activity – Individual or Pairs
Create a visual that shows the controversy of balancing civil liberties with the wartime needs of the country during the Civil War
Cartoon, Poster, Mind-Map, Newspaper article, Chart, etc
Merryman, Vallandigham, and/or Milligan