Emancipation Proclamation

What does the word emancipation mean?

• To be set free

• to remain enslaved

• to be enlisted in the union army

• to withdraw from the union

What were two of the main reasons for the union fighting in the civil war?

• Lincoln being elected

• Preserving the Union

• Ending slavery

• Popular soveirgnty

Slave owners considered slaves as ________. Just like they considered their horses and homes as property.

True or False: The Emancipation Proclamation immediately set all the slaves in the United States free?

• TRUE

• FALSE

Which side had a stronger navy?

• The Union

• The Confederacy

Match the following

• 16th President, President during the Civil War

• Abraham Lincoln

• Commander of the Confederate Army

• Robert E. Lee

• Commander of the Union Army

• Ulysses S. Grant

ACCORDING TO THE PASSAGE WHO WOULD PROTECT SLAVES FREEDOM?

"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."

• The new governmernt of the Confederacy

• The executive government, including the navy and military

• The states in which slaves will now preside in

• The Judicial branch of the US government

According to the emancipation proclamation where would slaves be free?

• All land in North America

• Any Confederate state that would be taken by the union

• Only the border states in exchange for supplies

• Only the Northern states that remained in the Union

What group of Union Soldiers is pictured?

• The Virginia 3rd volunteers

• The Maryland 23rd Regiment

• The 54th Massachusetts regiment

• The Tennessee 21st battalion