U7 L5: Proclamation & Gettysburg (8.64)- Practice

** 1: Why didn't the Emancipation Proclamation free enslaved people in the South right away? **

• Confederate leaders didn't respect orders from the president of the Union.

• The order was vetoed by Congress, delaying when it could go into effect.

• The proclamation only applied to United States territories, not individual state.

• Enslaved people had to formally apply for their freedom which took time.

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** 2: "Four score 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."

• - excerpt from "Gettysburg Address", Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 19, 1863

The last five words in this excerpt is referencing what document? **

• The Mayflower Compact

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The United States Constitution

• The Declaration of Independence

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** 3: According to the passage, what was Abraham Lincoln's MAIN purpose of the address? **

• celebrate the Union's crushing victory of the Confederates

• announce Lincoln's plans to emancipate southern slaves

• explain the higher purpose of the Civil War

• comfort Union troops on their way south

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** 4: Choose THREE options that identify perceived issues with the Emancipation Proclamation. **

• It did not address the freedom of slaves outside of the war.

• It included exemptions for Confederate states already under Union control.

• It did not include the states of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky and Missouri.

• It required slaves to return to their native Africa.

• It had no real authority.

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Organize these options into the right categories

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(a) Emancipation Proclamation

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(b) Gettysburg Address

• November 1863

• would lead directly to the 13th Amendment

• directly addresses the issue of slavery

• Presidential address- speech

• presidential order-law

• January 1863

• speaks to the need to save the soul of the Union

• dedication of memorial cemetery

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At the beginning of the Civil War, Lincoln's main goal was to -

• free all slaves

• preserve the Union

• destroy the South

• take over Canada

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do for slaves?

• It freed all slaves in southern states at war against the U.S.

• It made slavery legal everywhere.

• It forced runaway slaves to return to the South.

• It gave former slaves voting rights.

Bloodist battle of the war, this Union victory ended the second Confederate invasion of the North.

• Vicksburg
• Antietam
• Shiloh
• Gettysburg
• Appomattox Court House

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Included the bloodiest single day in the war, this inconclusive Union victory ended the first Confederate invasion of the North.

• Vicksburg
• Antietam
• Shiloh
• Gettysburg
• Appomattox Court House

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Which of the following did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

• Freed all slaves in the Confederate states that were not currently under Union control.

• Laid the groundwork for a future constitutional amendment to outlaw slavery.

• Allowed for African American men to fight in the Union army.

• All of the above

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