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During this short week we will focus on the causes of the Civil War. We will have our field trip on Tuesday and I will be traveling with some of you on Thursday to our nation's capital. We will have a very short quiz on Wednesday, along with time to continue to work on your project.
The Real Uncle Tom -
The Real Uncle Tom -
Video - The Real Uncle Tom: Josiah Henson
Uncle Tom’s Cabin tells the story of Uncle Tom, an enslaved person,
depicted as saintly and dignified, noble and steadfast in his beliefs. While
being transported by boat to auction in New Orleans, Tom saves the life of
Little Eva, an angelic and forgiving young girl, whose grateful father then
purchases Tom. Eva and Tom soon become great friends. Always frail,
Eva’s health begins to decline rapidly, and on her deathbed she asks her
father to free all his enslaved people. He makes plans to do so but is then
killed, and the brutal Simon Legree, Tom’s new owner, has Tom whipped
to death after he refuses to divulge the whereabouts of certain escaped
slaves. Tom maintains a steadfastly Christian attitude toward his own
suffering, and Stowe imbues Tom’s death with echoes of Christ’s.
Simon Legree, the principal villain in the story, represents greed and
brutality, a man who chose sin over reform. Legree forces enslaved
persons into different roles in his life. A woman named Cassy is forced to
live with him. When Legree buys Tom, he also buys a 15-year-old girl
named Emmeline, whom he intends to keep as a replacement for Cassy.
Through punishment and reward, Legree turns Quimbo and Sambo into
his companions and enforcers. The two men are coerced into beating other
enslaved people at Legree’s command. It is Quimbo and Sambo who whip
Tom to his death; as Tom lay dying, they express remorse and shame. Tom
forgives them before he dies.
Compare the story of the novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, to the story of the real
Uncle Tom.
Josiah Henson was the primary person who was the influence of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
1. Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky.
2. After he taught himself to read, he became a teacher.
3. Lincoln wanted slavery.
4. The Kansas-Kentucky act allowed the states in the West to decide if they would have slaves.
5. The Emancipation Proclamation said that slaves would be free in Southern states.
6. Lincoln was shot but he recovered.
7. The Confederates surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse in 1865.
8. The Civil War began at Fort Sumter.
9. Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States.
10. Lincoln’s famous speech is called The Gettysburg Address.
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States of America. He was born in rural Kentucky in 1809. His father and mother were farmers. Though he worked very hard on the farm, Abraham never took to it. He taught himself to read and eventually left the farm to work in Illinois. Abraham was highly intelligent and became a lawyer in Springfield, Illinois. Eventually, he was elected to serve in the United States Congress.
Mr. Lincoln had always opposed slavery. Now he had a chance to do something about it. At this time, there were states that wanted slavery and there were other states who did not. In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska Act was established which allowed the new states in the West to decide whether they wanted to be slave or free. This decision might have encouraged people to prefer slavery in their territory, something Lincoln did not want.
In 1860, Lincoln was elected President of the United States. This caused the Southern states, who wanted slavery to continue, to resist Abe Lincoln’s authority because they thought he would take away their rights. The Southern states then broke away, or seceded from the Union. Confederates, or Southern states attacked a Union fort, Fort Sumter, and the war began.
President Lincoln was determined to keep the Union together despite the costs. On January 1, 1863, Lincoln declared in the Emancipation Proclamation that all slaves would be free in free states. A few months later, he gave a speech at a memorial of the Battle of Gettysburg. This famous speech is called The Gettysburg Address.
After the worst war in our history, the Confederates finally surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865. Abraham Lincoln had been reelected president. But on April 15, 1865, his service to our country ended, when he was killed by an assassin.
The Civil War
The Civil War
1 - What happened four score and seven years ago? What year was that?
2. What does it mean that we are testing whether this nation can long endure? Where is this address taking place? What battlefield?
3. Why do they dedicate this place? As what? Here, many died. What is being born, coming into life?
4. Why can’t these people consecrate this ground? Who can? Who have consecrated it? How?
5. What is the last full measure of devotion that the dead have given? How can the listeners of this speech ensure that those in the battle will not have died in vain? What is the great task remaining before the listeners?
6. What does it mean that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom?
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