1. ACTIVITY 1.14 HISTORICAL HEROS

2. CIVIL WAR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd-c4wq0ULs The American Civil War was fought between the North (Union states) and the South (Confederate states). The Confederate states wanted to leave the union. People from the North were called Yankees, and people from the South were called Rebels. The Civil War began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces attacked a U.S. Union military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. The war lasted from 1861-1865. The conflict was triggered by the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. The Confederacy was led by Jefferson Davis. He was considered the president of the South. Robert E. Lee was the leader of the Confederate Army. The Union was led by Abraham Lincoln. He was the president of the United States. Ulysses S. Grant was the leader of the Union Army.

4. ABRAHAM LINCOLN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndRDAbOPUWY Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States He served from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He led the United States through its Civil War and in doing so, preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.

6. EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqenhp-LSe0 Lincoln issued the proclamation Jan. 1, 1863. It was a technical document, granting freedom to all slaves in all areas of the Confederacy still in rebellion. The proclamation did not pertain to slaves in the border states, but it did allow for the popular use of African-Americans in the Union Army and Navy. The proclamation also made the war a crusade against slavery, meaning that England and France, both morally opposed to slavery, could not in good conscience ally themselves with the Confederacy. From its Galveston, Texas origin in 1865, the observance of June 19 th as the African American Emancipation Day has spread across the United States and beyond.

8. FREDERICK DOUGLASS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SwvV15Dcqs Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in 1818. Frederick Douglass was a former slave who became one of the great American anti-slavery leaders of the 1800s Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland but in 1838, at age 20, he escaped to freedom in New York. Went to work for abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison Published his memoir Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave in 1845 Gained fame as a speaker, began his own anti-slavery publications and became a 'conductor' on the Underground Railroad. Became a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln and helped persuade Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. Abraham Lincoln a strong supporter of women's rights.