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APUSH-14-E-2
Emancipation Proclamation
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The Civil War
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Relevant transcripts: Resource Type: Primary Source President Abraham Lincoln. The Road to Emancipation: Characteristics Resource Type: Primary Source Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation Resource Type: Primary Source Read the Emancipation Proclamation to determine whom exactly it set free. Was the Proclamation issued because the war was not going well for the North or because African Americans were demanding that the destruction of slavery become the key aim of the war? African American Soldiers Resource Type: Primary Source This was one of many battles in which the new African American troops distinguished themselves. The Emancipation Proclamation Resource Type: Point-Counterpoint Eric Foner considers the Emancipation Proclamation to have been the turning point of the Civil War (1861–65), of the history of slavery, and for President Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) himself. Primarily through the work of Ira Berlin and others, historians have learned a great deal about the behavior of slaves before and after the Emancipation Proclamation. What emerged from this investigation is what Foner calls a new synthesis "that sees slavery as the most crucial problem of antebellum American life and the fundamental cause of the Civil War, and the myriad consequences of emancipation as the central themes of the war and Reconstruction." The Role of African Americans in the Civil War Resource Type: Point-Counterpoint Although there has been no major attack on the view that African Americans played a decisive role in winning the Civil War, it is also true that, with the exception of W.E.B. Du Bois in Black Reconstruction, there were no historians writing prior to 1960, who would have agreed with Foner's interpretation on the decisive role played by African Americans. A teacher explores how, prior to the rise of the civil-rights movement in the mid-1950s, professional historians simply had been uninterested in the behavior of African Americans, either as slaves or as soldiers. The Second Confiscation Act Resource Type: Primary Source The U.S. Congress passsed legislation to inhibit treason against the Union. | |
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