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Social Studies Strands
Thomas Miller
Seventh Grade Social Studies:
Gettysburg Address
Table of Contents
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Strands 1-8 in order, clearly labeled
Objectives
Materials
Websites
Lincoln Facts
Presentable slides on Lincoln, the civil
war, and the Gettysburg Address.
Strand #1
• HISTORY
– November 19, 1863
– A nation is at war, most brutal battle had just
taken place.
– Civil war, brother against brother, father
against son.
Strand #2
• PEOPLE IN SOCIETIES
– The people were torn by war.
– The identity was less by familial lines and
more by view points of the time.
– Groups and institutions would include the
confederacy and the union.
Strand #3
• Geography
– Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
– At the time, few global connections could be
made, today this is more of a national
gathering spot.
– Map:
Strand #4
• ECONOMICS
– This time and place has little connection to
economics.
– The north did have a much stronger economy
than the south at this time.
Strand #5
• Government
– This time, and this event have a great impact
on the formation of American national
government today.
– Had things not developed the way they had
then, we would not be the way we are today.
Strand #6
• Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities
– I feel that it is the responsibility of all
Americans to understand the basics of their
backgrounds.
Strand #7
• Social Studies Skills and Methods
– Knowledge of what happened and when and
why it is important to you today.
Strand #8
• Science Technology and Society
– Use of technology to teach information.
– Websites come later
Objectives
• To Achieve an understanding of Why the
Gettysburg Address was so crucial and
why the war it was given during was so
crucial.
Materials
• 1 computer (with power point)
• 1 projection screen
• 1 projector
Websites
• http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/al16/speeches/getty
s.htm
• http://www.prometheusonline.de/heureka/politik/
vortraege/lincoln/gett/lincgett.htm
• http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/s
peeches/gettysburg.htm
• http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/history/A082068
3.html
• http://www.kids.net.au/profile.php?id=14225
Fast Facts about Lincoln
• Took place on November 19, 1863
• Civil War began in 1861.
• Lincoln predicted the civil war in his
inaugural speech.
• Civil war began when the south attacked
Fort Sumter.
• Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth
president.
Image of Lincoln
• Go to www.google.com images, type in
Abraham Lincoln, click search
Quotations of Lincoln
• "Those who deny freedom to others,
deserve it not for themselves; and,
under a just God, can not long retain
it." The Collected Works of Abraham
Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume
III, "Letter To Henry L. Pierce and
Others" (April 6, 1859), p. 376.
Quotes
• "As I would not be a slave, so I would
not be a master. This expresses my
idea of democracy. Whatever differs
from this, to the extent of the
difference, is no democracy." The
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II,
(August 1, 1858?), p. 532.
quotes
• "Let us have faith that right makes
might, and in that faith, let us, to the
end, dare to do our duty as we
understand it." Lincoln's Cooper
Institute Address, February 27, 1860.
Gettysburg Address quote:
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The Gettysburg Address Nov. 19, 1863
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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new
nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created
equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so
conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of
that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those
who died here that the nation might live. This we may, in all propriety do. But in a
larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this
ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have hallowed it far
above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember
what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
It is rather for us the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before
us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which
they here gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that
these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation shall have a new birth of
freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not
perish from the earth."
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Lincoln as a President
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Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address: "In your hands, my dissatisfied
fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The
government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy
the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and
defend it."
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Lincoln thought secession illegal, and was willing to use force to defend
Federal law and the Union. When Confederate batteries fired on Fort
Sumter and forced its surrender, he called on the states for 75,000
volunteers. Four more slave states joined the Confederacy but four
remained within the Union. The Civil War had begun.
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The son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Lincoln had to struggle for a living and for
learning
Lincoln Sketches his own life
• "I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents
were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second
families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth
year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... removed
from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild
region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods.
There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know
much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that was
all."
Friends on Lincoln:
• Lincoln made extraordinary efforts to attain
knowledge while working on a farm,
splitting rails for fences, and keeping store
at New Salem, Illinois. He was a captain in
the Black Hawk War, spent eight years in
the Illinois legislature, and rode the circuit
of courts for many years. His law partner
said of him, "His ambition was a little
engine that knew no rest."
Family
• He married Mary Todd, and they had four
boys, only one of whom lived to maturity.
In 1858 Lincoln ran against Stephen A.
Douglas for Senator. He lost the election,
but in debating with Douglas he gained a
national reputation that won him the
Republican nomination for President in
1860.
Lincolns Party
• As President, he built the Republican
Party into a strong national organization.
Further, he rallied most of the northern
Democrats to the Union cause. On
January 1, 1863, he issued the
Emancipation Proclamation that declared
forever free those slaves within the
Confederacy.
Re-election
• Lincoln won re-election in 1864, as Union
military triumphs heralded an end to the
war. In his planning for peace, the
President was flexible and generous,
encouraging Southerners to lay down their
arms and join speedily in reunion.
Lincoln Quiz
• When did Lincoln Threaten the Civil War?
• Quote the Gettysburg Address.
• Give another Quote of Lincolns and explain it in your
own words
• Who did Lincoln Marry?
• How did Lincolns Friends describe him?
• What party did Lincoln make strong?
• Re-create Lincolns life sketch.
• Was Lincoln re-elected? If so, what year?
• How many boys did Lincoln have?
• When and how did Lincoln Free the Slaves?
Artistic Rendition
• You have seen pictures of Abraham
Lincoln, you may either re-create one of
them, create your own picture of him, write
a poem about him, make a song for him,
or any other artistic Endeavor which you
see fit.
Strand #1 Activities
• 1. Make a time line of the civil war.
• 2.list 5 changes from that time to our time.
• 3.write a story placing yourself as Lincolns
right hand man, tell me what this was like.
• 4.Would you want to have lived back then,
why or why not?
• 5.What existed then, that still exists now?
Strand #2 Activities
• 1. Discuss how you think the people then would
act.
• 2. Do you think you would have gotten along
with someone from back then? Why or why not?
• 3. How do you think people are similar and
different from then to now?
• 4. What do you think your family was like back
then?
• 5. Are you happy to be alive now, or would you
have rather lived back then?
Strand #3 Activities
• 1. Draw a map of your town back then.
• 2. Draw a map of what you think the country
looked like back then.
• 3. Draw a map of your town then, next to a map
of your town now.
• 4. Make a three dimensional model of a town in
1865.
• 5. Sketch a picture of the world then, compared
to a globe of the world now in the classroom.
Strand #4 Activities
• 1. go to: http://www.frbsf.org/currency/civilwar/
And tell me what you find about our economy compared to
theirs.
2. The south issued millions of dollars for the war effort,
how much does a war effort cost today?
3. If the south spent millions of dollars over 4 years, say
they spent 1 million a year, how much did they spend a
day, week, month? How does that compare to today.
4. What types of economy’s did the north and south have
then? Compare them.
5. Who had a stronger economy us then, or us now?
Strand #5 Activities
• 1. Describe our government in 1861.
• 2. Describe our government in 1865.
• 3. Compare our government today with
our governments of 1861 and 1865.
• 4. Simulate a debate between the
president of the north and the president of
the south in 1860.
• 5. Name 5 major differences between the
government of then and now.
Strand #6 Activities
• 1. Who were allowed to be citizens in
1860.
• 2. What does the constitution say about
citizenship?
• 3. What do we say about citizenship
today?
• 4. Who are citizens today? Are you?
• 5. Compare and contrast citizenship today
with then.
Strand #7 Activities
• 1. Review factual material
• 2. Review speeches and personal
accounts of people at that time.
• 3. Read stories about what happened and
why.
• 4. Give our own accounts on what
happened.
• 5. Relive Debates, acting them out in
class.
Strand #8 Activities
• http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/al16/speeches/getty
s.htm
• http://www.prometheusonline.de/heureka/politik/
vortraege/lincoln/gett/lincgett.htm
• http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/s
peeches/gettysburg.htm
• http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/history/A082068
3.html
• http://www.kids.net.au/profile.php?id=14225