1. How would you describe Abraham Lincoln?

2. How is Lincoln portrayed here
Lincoln stomping on American rights of "freedom of the press" and "habeas corpus" while dangling a fishing pole that says, "my will is law" with bait called "my emancipation joke" above an African American. Lincoln's secretary of state, William Seward, forms the end of the Lincoln beast's tail and says, "I have only to touch that little bell and I can imprison any man in the United States," as he rings a bell attached to the "Seward liberty pole."

3. Brainpop
LINCOLN: What do we learn?

4. Preserve the Union
“If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all he slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.”
-Abraham Lincoln, August 22, 1862,quoted in Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln’s actions toward slavery were based on his primary purpose, which was to save the Union.

5. The Emancipation Proclamation
broaden the goals of the war
emancipate, or free, enslaved African Americans in Confederate states not under Union control
Only 50,000 out of 4 million were immediately set free
Allowed black men to fight in army (200,000 joined)
“On the 1st day of January, in the year of our Lord 1863, all persons held as slaves within any state or…part of a state [whose] people…shall them be in rebellion against the United States, shall be the, thenceforward, and forever free.”
-Abraham Lincoln, January 1, 1863,
The Emancipation Proclamation

6. I will suspend everyone’s HABEAS CORPUS and not tell them why!

7. Habeas Corpus was shortage of volunteers to serve in the Union army
Draft
Northerners began to riot
President Lincoln suspended habeas corpus
the right to complain before a judge/court if they think they were imprisoned for the wrong reason.
argued that the Constitution allowed him to deny people their rights “when in a case of rebellion or invasion, the public safety required it.”

8. Gettysburg Address The Battle of Gettysburg three day battle
More than 50,000 dead or wounded
ceremony to dedicate a cemetery to the memory of those soldiers who died in the battle
President Lincoln delivered speech
Civil War was a test if whether or not a democratic nation could survive
reminded Americans that their nation was founded on the belief that “all men are created equal.”