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Abraham Lincoln |
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In the 1860 campaign for President, Lincoln firmly expressed his opposition to slavery and his determination to limit the expansion of slavery westward into the new territories acquired from Mexico in 1850. His election victory created a crisis for the nation, as many southern Democrats feared that it would just be a matter of time before Lincoln would move to kill slavery in the South. Rather than face a future in which black people might become free citizens, much of the white South supported secession. This reasoning was based upon the doctrine of states' rights, which placed ultimate sovereignty with the states. |
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Abraham Lincoln From Log Cabin to the White House |
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Adding to Deborah Hedstrom-Page’s unique lessons are plentiful illustrations from Sergio Martinez (Max Lucado’s You Are Special). Each book also contains study questions for every chapter and other educational helps. Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) was the sixteenth president of the United States best-known for helping to abolish slavery during the Civil War, and his tragic assassination just days after the war ended. |
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For students ages eight to fourteen, the MY AMERICAN JOURNEY series presents a true history of the United States with a cleverly helpful dose of fiction. Each of these first four books (in a projected series of ten) recounts highlights from the life of a true American founder or social pioneer. But to engage a student’s interest from page one, a fictional narrator—usually a school-age person who somehow knew the main hero—tells the story with youthful vigor. |
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The Writings Of Abraham Lincoln Vol(1 of 7) |
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The Gettysburg Address (1863) |
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The study of the Gettysburg Address is a great way to introduce young history students in grades 4-8 to one of the most eloquent arguments in history for American democracy. Here students come face to face with Lincoln's writing and primary source material. This reproducible book provides activities for students to investigate this speech, as well as place it in the larger context of events that led to its writing. Six activities, each with two parts--narrative and review, will help students understand Lincoln, the Battle of Gettysburg and how this address was received in contemporary accounts. For too many students, history was then and this is now. The implications, the lessons and the relevance of past events are never discovered because that door is slammed shut before it is every fully opened. This series involved students in examining historical documents and understanding their impact on our present lives. |
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The inaugural Address—Abraham Lincoln |
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Abraham Lincoln Selections from His Speeches and Writings Edited by J.G. de ROULHAC HAMILTON kenan professor of history and government The University of |
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Selected Speeches and Writings: Abraham Lincoln |
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Ranging from finely honed legal argument to dry and sometimes savage humor to private correspondence and political rhetoric of unsurpassed grandeur, the writings collected in this volume are at once the literary testament of the greatest writer ever to occupy the White House and a documentary history of America in Abraham Lincoln's time. They record Lincoln's campaigns for public office; the evolution of his stand against slavery; his pyrotechnic debates with Stephen Douglas; his conduct of the Civil War; and the great public utterances of his presidency, including the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address. |
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Lincoln vowed to preserve the Union even if it meant war. He eventually raised an army and navy of nearly 3 million northern men to face a southern army of over 2 million soldiers. In battles fought from Virginia to California (but mainly in Virginia, in the Mississippi River Valley, and along the border states) a great civil war tore the United States apart. In pursuing victory, Lincoln assumed extralegal powers over the press, declared martial law in areas where no military action justified it, quelled draft riots with armed soldiers, and drafted soldiers to fight for the Union cause. No President in history had ever exerted so much executive authority, but he did so not for personal power but in order to preserve the Union. In 1864, as an example of his limited personal ambitions, Lincoln refused to call off national elections, preferring to hold the election even if he lost the vote rather than destroy the democratic basis upon which he rested his authority. With the electoral support of Union soldiers, many of whom were given short leaves to return home to vote, and thanks to the spectacular victory of Union troops in General Sherman's capture of Atlanta, Lincoln was decisively reelected. |
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What started as a war to preserve the Union and vindicate democracy became a battle for freedom and a war to end slavery when Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in January of 1863. Although the Proclamation did not free all slaves in the nation -- indeed, no slaves outside of the Confederacy were affected by the Proclamation -- it was an important symbolic gesture that identified the Union with freedom and the death of slavery. As part of the Proclamation, Lincoln also urged black males to join the Union forces as soldiers and sailors. By the end of the war, nearly two hundred thousand African Americans had fought for the Union cause, and Lincoln referred to them as indispensable in ensuring Union victory. |
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