Transcript Abraham Lincoln and the Beginning of Reconstruction

In response to reading the Gettysburg Address,
consider the following questions for discussion:
(1) 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?”
Abraham
Lincoln
February 12, 1809 - Lincoln is born.
** Description of birth, upbringing, and education
1842
- Marries Mary Todd Lincoln
1855 & 1859
- Loses legislature’s vote for the
Senate for Illinois.
Nov. 6, 1860
- Wins 1860 Presidential Election
Sept. 22, 1862
- Issues Emancipation Proclamation
** Enduring objective during the Civil War
Nov. 19, 1863
- Delivers the “Gettysburg Address”
Nov. 8, 1864
- Wins 1864 Presidential Election
April 9, 1865
- General Lee surrenders
April 14, 1865
- Shot by John Wilkes Booth and
dies the next day
Lincoln’s Assassination, April 14, 1865
• Much Larger Plot …
– John Wilkes Booth = President
Lincoln
– Lewis Powell = William Seward
– George Atzerodt = Andrew Johnson
** 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:
(1) Limitations of the Emancipation Proclamation …
(2) Authority of States’ Laws …
(3) 13th Amendment needed because …
(4) What about the depictions of his character and personality …
Why the telling of stories?
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
Why was Reconstruction a Revolution?
• Freedmen’s Bureau
• Civil Rights Act
of 1866
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• Political Representation
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.
• 2nd Era of “Reconstruction”
The Civil Rights Era (1954 – 1968)
• Worksheet Questions on Reconstruction
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJLBrDSTgng