Lincoln's+Actions

 In this activity you will study Lincoln's actions during the Civil War. **Sources for the small groups:**  __Suspension of habeas corpus__ • Lincoln’s Proclamation Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus, September 24, 1862 http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;cc=lincoln;q1=Proclamation%20Suspending%20the%20Writ%20of%20Habeas%20Corpus;rgn=div2;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A957.1

• Roger B. Taney, Ex Parte Merryman, 1861 http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=442

• Clement Vallandigham, “On the War and its Conduct,” January 14, 1863 http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1479

• Abraham Lincoln to Erastus Corning and Others, June 1863 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mal:@field(DOCID+@lit(d2401700))

__The Emancipation Proclamation__ • Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln, January 1, 1863 http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;cc=lincoln;q1=emancipation%20proclamation;rgn=div2;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A53.1

• Emancipation and its results—Is Ohio to be Africanized?, Samuel Cox, June 3, 1862 http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1461

• The President’s Proclamation, New York Times, January 3, 1863 http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1477

__Arming the Freed Slaves__ • Petition to Lincoln by the citizens of Prince George’s County [Maryland], 1863 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mal:@field(DOCID+@lit(d1985400))

• Thomas Richmond to Abraham Lincoln, March 2, 1863 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mal:@field(DOCID+@lit(d2209700))

• Thomas Richmond to Abraham Lincoln, March 2, 1863 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mal:@field(DOCID+@lit(d2232700))

• Thomas E. Bramlette (Governor of Kentucky) to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, February 1, 1864 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mal:@field(DOCID+@lit(d3004600))

__Lincoln’s Refusal to Conclude a Compromised Peace__ • “A Negotiated Peace with the Confederacy Is Possible,” Illinois State Register, September 9, 1864 http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1476

• “An Armistice: How it Would Ruin Us,” New York Tribune, September 27, 1864 http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1478

**Organizers for Individual Groups:** 

**Silent Debate Directions:**  1. In the pair, define the action of Lincoln – both students need to agree with this. 2. The pro-Lincoln person should start by writing a statement defending the president’s decision in the left hand column. 3. The anti-Lincoln person should write a statement responding to that point. Both sides should draw on evidence from the documents in making their arguments. 4. The activity continues until both sides run out of statements. 

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 * Use the organizer for your topic


 * Rubric for debate:**
 * For each student**