Lincoln's Presidency

"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.

From where is this announcement by the President of the United States taken?

• the Constitution

• the Emancipation Proclamation

• the Gettysburg Address

• the 13th Amendment

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation declared:

• Women to be treated equally as men

• Slaves in Union states to be free

• Slaves in Confederate states to be free

• African Americans in the North to be treated equally as white men

What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation

• To free all slaves living in the Confederate states

• To free all slaves in America including territories

• To give freed slaves the right to vote

• To give permission for passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

...we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

• Soldiers killed in a Civil War battle

• Workers who died while building a railroad for the union

• Slaves killed while trying to escape

• Freed slaves killed during the Civil War

What was Lincoln's primary purpose for delivering the Gettysburg Address?

• To commemorate a great Union victory

• To dedicate a cemetery

• To launch his reelection campaign

• To consecrate the ground

This freed all slaves held by the Confederacy but not the border states loyal to the Union

• 13th Amendment

• Gettysburg Address

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Inaugural Address

Which of the following did President Abraham Lincoln use to establish the abolition of slavery as a Union objective in the Civil War?

• the Gettysburg Address

• his first inaugural address

• the Emancipation Proclamation

• his second inaugural address

Abraham Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War can be attributed, in part, to his fear of which of the following?

• that the Union Army did not have enough soldiers to win the war

• that prisoners of war would conspire to rebel against their captors

• that the country lacked the finances necessary to wage legal battles

• that protesters and Confederate sympathizers would harm the war effort

the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends... Abraham Lincoln, 1st inaugural address March 4, 1961

What is the "domestic institution" that Lincoln is referring to in his inaugural address?

• Slavery

• The Civil War

• Secession from the Union

• The attack on Fort Sumter

People killed, missing, or wounded during a battle.

• entrenched

• total war

• suffrage

• casualty