1. Good morning!
Please get out your major themes sheet and any notes you may have.
Be ready for a short quiz over your homework reading.

2. Quiz

3. Document Analysis POVL Origin Purpose Value Limitations
What is the overall message?

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

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

6. Pairs Discussion 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?

7. 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?

8. 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