Mr. Saindon
United States History
Monday, May 12
to Friday, May 16
Last Week
Wrapping up "Overview of the Civil War" packet. Will finish on Monday
This Week: Three topics:
1. Gettysburg: Fill out close activity on the Gettysburg Address (100 points)
2. Skit on the Emancipation Proclamation ((100 points based on team work and focus)
3. "Killing Lincoln"packet questions (100 points)
Battle of Gettysburg
Emancipation Proclamation
Countdown to the Civil War
Learning Objective
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Students will identify the conflicts between the North and South and explain how these led to the Civil War.
1.Students will be able to create a timeline of events leading up to the Battle of Gettysburg. Students will be able to discuss the effects of the Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. After reading the Gettysburg Address, students will be able to summarize the content.
2. Students will be able to discuss the political and military conditions that led to the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. After reading the document, students will be able to summarize, in writing, the meaning of the Emancipation Proclamation.
3. Lincoln’s Assassination – Understand the events leading up to and following April 14, 1865.
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The Investigation and Trial – Dive into the search for John Wilkes Booth and the trial of the conspirators.
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Lincoln’s Legacy – Analyze Abraham Lincoln’s lasting impact on America today.
Fall of Richmond
Song: The Night They
Drove Old Dixie Down
Lincoln Surveys the Carnage at Petersburg, Virginia

United States of America
USA




Confederate States of America
CSA
President Abraham Lincoln
President Jefferson Davis
ORIGINS OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH
The story of Black History Month begins in 1915, half a century after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. That September, the Harvard-trained historian Carter G. Woodson and the prominent minister Jesse E. Moorland founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH), an organization dedicated to researching and promoting achievements by black Americans and other peoples of African descent. Known today as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the group sponsored a national Negro History week in 1926, choosing the second week of February to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. The event inspired schools and communities nationwide to organize local celebrations, establish history clubs and host performances and lectures.
In the decades that followed, mayors of cities across the country began issuing yearly proclamations recognizing Black History Week. By the late 1960s, thanks in part to the Civil Rights Movement and a growing awareness of black identity, Negro History Week had evolved into Black History Month on many college campuses. President Gerald R. Ford officially recognized Black History Month in 1976, calling upon the public to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.”
Since then, every American president has designated February as Black History Month and endorsed a specific theme. The 2013 theme, At the Crossroads of Freedom and Equality: The Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington, marks the 150th and 50th anniversaries of two pivotal events in African-American history.