Advise Lincoln

Advise Lincoln

You are an advisor to President Lincoln

You will be advising him through a series of challenging decisions.

Decision 1

Fort Sumter

Fort Sumter - The Situation

• The Confederates are threatening Union troops at Fort Sumter.

• Because the fort is in Southern Territory, they believe it is now their property.

• The Fort is running out of supplies and will be lost if you don't send reinforcements

• If Lincoln sends troops, the Confederates will view it as an act of war.

• If Lincoln doesn't send troops, the soldiers at the fort could starve, and the union will look very weak.

Poll

Do you advise...

• Send troops and supplies to Fort Sumter in a show of force.

• Do nothing to avoid provoking a war. Give up the fort if necessary.

• Defend the fort by sending only non-military supplies such as food and clothing.

Open Ended

Why did you choose this course of action?

What really happened

• Lincoln sent unarmed boats to resupply the fort and told Confederate commanders that he did not intend to attack Confederate forces.

• The Confederates attacked anyway, but they were seen as the aggressors. 

• 4 more states (North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee & Arkansas) seceded

Multiple Choice

Although no one was killed, _________ is considered the beginning of the Civil War

• Antietam

• Gettysburg

• Fort Sumter

• Gettysburg

Civil Liberties

Civil Liberties

• Article I of the Constitution states that "the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus” could be suspended by Congress “in cases of rebellion and invasion the public safety may require it.”

• But... Congress was not in session.

• Lincoln uses his "military" authority to justify suspending habeas corpus

Poll

Was Lincoln Justified in suspending habeas corpus?

• It’s unconstitutional for the President to suspend the writ of habeas corpus (arrest/jail people without telling them why)

• The President has the legal authority to arrest and imprison people who are a danger to national security during war.

Open Ended

Why did you choose this course of action?

Emancipation Proclamation

The Emancipation Proclamation

“I, Abraham Lincoln. . .do designate [name] the following States as being in rebellion: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia.

Multiple Choice

Lincoln emancipated those that were enslaved in

• The Union

• The Confederacy and Border States

• The Confederacy

Open Ended

Why do you think Lincoln only freed those enslaved in the Confederacy areas and not everywhere, especially the border states?

The Proclamation Continued

• And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places within the army or navy…

Open Ended

What did he ask those that escaped the Confederacy to do?

Multiple Select

What are two examples of Lincoln expanding the power of the President during the Civil War?

• Hiring Ulysses S. Grant

• Issuing the Emancipation Proclamation

• Suspending Habeas Corpus

Multiple Choice

Lincoln emancipated those enslaved in"rebellious" states.

• Gettysburg Address

• Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Emancipation Proclamation

Multiple Choice

right in the that protects against unlawful and indefinite imprisonment.

• Habeas Corpus

• Annexation

• Emancipation

• Manifest Destiny

Multiple Choice

Lincoln, the Republican candidate, won because the Democratic party was split over slavery. As a result, the South no longer felt like it has a voice in politics and a number of states seceded from the Union.

• Election of 1860

• Election of 1856

• Election of 1864

• Election of 1852

Multiple Choice

Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858)

• Jefferson Davis

• John Brown

• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

• Stephen Douglas

Multiple Choice

(1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries, (4) federal assumption of Texas debt, (5) slave trade abolished in DC, and (6) new fugitive slave law; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas.

• Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

Multiple Choice

A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.

• Manifest Destiny

• Popular Sovereignty

• Annexation

• Habeas Corpus

Multiple Choice

It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act