Did Abraham Lincoln deserve the title, Great Emancipator?

Was Abraham Lincoln the Great Emancipator?

Should Lincoln still be referred

to as the Great Emancipator?

Who else deserves credit?

Who freed the slaves?

Does Lincoln deserve to be called the 'Great Emancipator'?

If not Lincoln, who? Who is responsible for freeing the slaves?

This question is based on the accompanying documents 1-12.

It is designed to test your ability to work with historical documents. Some have been edited for the purposes of the question. As you analyze the documents, take into account the source of each document and any point of view that may be presented in the document.

Historical Context: There were four million enslaved during the Civil War. There were many responsible for the emancipation of the enslaved.

Task: Using information from the documents and your knowledge of United States history, answer the questions that follow each document. Your answers to the questions will help you write the essay in which you will be asked to:

* Discuss who deserves the credit for emancipation of the enslaved during the Civil War? Does Lincoln deserve the title Great Emancipator, why or why not?

Write a well organized essay that includes an introduction, several paragraphs, and a conclusion. Use evidence from at least six of documents in your essay. Support your response with relevant facts, examples, and details. Include additional outside information.

Be sure to :

Develop all aspects of the task:

Incorporate information from at least 6 documents:

Incorporate relevant outside information:

Support the theme with relevant facts, examples, and details:

Use a logical and clear plan of organization, including an introduction and conclusion that are beyond a restatement of the theme.

Document 2a Cartoon:

Document 5a 1861 Confiscation Act

5b 1862 Confiscation Act

Q 1: What does the 1861 Act do to slaves?

Q 2: What does 1862 Act do to slaves?

Q 3: What else does the 1862 Act authorize?

Directions: Analyze the documents and answer the short-answer questions that follow each document in the space provided.

Document Questions:

1. What was the nickname given to the yellow states on the map?

2. According to the map, what was unique about these four states?

Document 6a: Transcription of parts of the First Draft

Emancipation Act;

6b Painting of Lincoln's cabinet; & 6c the

handwritten act;

6 d Professor Pinsker's close read of the First Draft

Q 1: What reason did Lincoln give on why this was necessary?

Q 2: After viewing Professor Pinsker's close read, focus on the 10 1/2 minute mark. What does Lincoln want to avoid by invoking military necessity?

Q: 1. Why are the slaves running to Fort Monroe?

2. How did General Butler justify not returning the slaves in his letters?

Document 4a General Order 11

4b Lincoln's May 19th proclamation

Q 1: What two things did General Hunter declare in South Carolina,

Florida and Georgia?

Q 2: What did Lincoln does as a result?

Q 3: What was Lincoln alternative to General Hunter's order?

Q 4: Why did Lincoln offered an alternative to Hunter's Order in 1862?

Document 3. Lincoln Letter to Gen. Fremont

about liberating of slaves.

Q 1: What is Lincoln worried about might happen

in Kentucky if Gen. Fremont's order is

permitted in Missouri?

View of U.S. Capitol under construction, Washington D.C., circa 1860-1861

“Come back here you black rascal.”

“Can't come back now nohow massa Dis chile's contraban.

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Fort Monroe became known as the Freedom Fort and over 10,000 escaped slaves swarmed to the fort by the end of the war

Document 2b

General Butler

Document 2c:

Letters from Gen. Butler

Lincoln would later relieve the general of his post for refusing to take back or rescind his order

https://apwiki.wikidot.com/ap-us:civil-war

1861

1865

Document 8: Lincoln's response to Emancipation Petition from Chicago

Ministers, the Reverends William Patterson and John Dempster.

Q 1: What excuse does Lincoln use for not issuing an Emancipation

Proclamation so far?

Q 2: Describe two things Lincoln speculates would be good if

he did issue a proclamation?

Q 3: What is the date of this letter? Is it before or after

Lincoln has discussed his plan for Emancipation?

Q 4: Why does Lincoln not bring it up again in this public method?

Document 10 Painting

Document 10b Excerpt from Michael Burlingame's book "Lincoln, A Life".

Q 1: Why was Lincoln encouraged to wait to issue his Emancipation Proclamation?

Document 11: Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation September 22, 1862. (transcript, and image of the original)

Q 1: What element is added to this proclamation that is new from the First Draft from July 22, 1862?

Q 2: What is still used as justification for this proclamation?

Document 7: Lincoln's response to Horace Greeley

Q 1: What does Lincoln say is his paramount

responsibility about the war?

Q 2: Does this letter take place, before or after

Lincoln's plan to announce Emancipation?

Q 3: What does Lincoln hope to gain by not revealing

Emancipation Plan in such a public

manner with a newspaper editor like Greeley?

Document 12: Engraving from

Jan 1 1863.

Q 1: What is one benefit for the

Union from the Emancipation

Proclamation?

Q 2: How do think southerners

felt about that part of it?

Document 9b: Podcast snippet about Emancipation.

Listen, re-listen if necessary.

Q 1: Who does Professor Burns believe is responsible

for freeing the slaves?

Q 2: What three other elements does she indicate

contribute to the freeing of the slaves?

Document 9a: Lincoln letter to Kentucky Editor Albert Hodges

Q 1: Identify two early measures of

emancipation that Lincoln undid?

Q 2: What appeals to the border states did

he choose to try first before emancipation?

Q 3: What happened after the border

states declined the proposition?

Q 4: Who was added to the union and

how many ?

CAPTION: "Emancipation Day in South Carolina" The color sergeant of the 1st South Carolina (Colored) Volunteers addressing the regiment, after having been presented with the Stars and Stripes at Smith's Plantation, Port Royal, January 1.

The colored regiment's sergeant, Prince Rivers

talked to the gathering. He would later

become a local politician and trial judge during

Reconstruction targeted by supremacists.

Jennifer Burns podcast from iTunes U,

"The Civil War and Its Aftermath; Emancipation," webcast@media.berkeley.edu

History 7B - Spring 2006: US History: from Civil War to Present

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/almss/ln001.html Lincoln's letter to Albert Hodges (KY), April 4, 1864