Transcript Guided Reading 16-3

Guided Reading 16-3
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DO NOW: Recreate the diagram
below and complete
Served as
guides and
spies
Worked
as
laborers
Served in
Union
army and
navy
We will learn:
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Why Lincoln issued the Emancipation
Proclamation
What role African Americans played in the
Civil War
Lincoln portrait, by artist Peter Baumgras
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I. A. 1. Why did Abraham Lincoln
hesitate to move against slavery?
1. making an issue of slavery would
divide the people and make the war
less popular
2. How did Northerners’ attitudes
toward slavery change as the war
went on?
2. They believed
that slavery
was helping
the war effort
in the South.
B. The Emancipation
Proclamation—Why did Lincoln
wait to issue the
Emancipation Proclamation?
B. He did not want to appear to be
acting in desperation when the North
seemed to be losing the war.
C. 1. Why did the proclamation not
actually free any enslaved people?
1. It applied only to areas that the
Confederacy controlled.
2. What effect did Lincoln hope the
proclamation would have on the
enslaved?
2. It would
encourage
them to run
away from
their
slaveholders.
3. What effect did the proclamation
have in Europe?
3. Great Britain and France decided to
withhold recognition of the
Confederacy.
4. Which amendment, ratified in
1865, truly freed enslaved African
Americans?
4. Thirteenth Amendment
II. A. 1. By the end of the war, what
portion of the Confederacy’s
enslaved
population had fled to Union areas?
1. about onesixth
2. What was the main reason
Southerners did not want to use
African
Americans as soldiers?
2. Southerners feared enslaved African
Americans would use the weapons,
which they would be given as
soldiers, in a rebellion.
B. Helping the North—Before they
were allowed to serve as soldiers in
the Union
army, how did African Americans
aid the Union war effort?
B. as guides and spies
C. 1. What was the 54th
Massachusetts?
1. one of the most famous African
American regiments
2. How did the events of July 18,
1863, win respect for African
American troops?
2. Nearly half of the soldiers in the
54th Massachusetts were wounded,
captured, or killed in a brave attack
on a Confederate fort (Fort Wagner,
SC).
Do you think peoples attitudes toward African Americans in the army
changed after the 54th’s attack on Fort Wagner?
Most commanding officers in the Union army were white,
even in all-African American units.
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