VIDEO. EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION FILM

VOCABULARY:

to craft emancipation proclamation

a conviction

l. Watch the video for the first time and say why these dates are considered to be the milestones in emancipation of afro-americans.

December 1, 1862

September 17, 1862 - battle of Antietam

March 17, 1865

April 15, 1865

II. Watch the video again and fill in the gaps:

1) “In giving freedom to the slave, we ... freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, and what we ... . We shall nobly ..., or meanly ..., the last best hope of earth. Other means may ... ; this could not ... . The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just -- a way which, if followed, the world will forever ... , and God must forever ... .”

2) We will never truly know Lincoln’s personal motivation for ... emancipation proclamation.

3) Speaker 1: “I get ... lessons from Abraham Lincoln”.

4) “I look at him ... ... he had a country that was really ... .... and he did what he needed to do to ... the country ... “.

5) Speaker 2: I really thinks he lived his ... . And did what he thought was needed to be done.

6) Speaker 3: “ Lincoln was an absolute ... in sense that he knew that he had to do do things in ... time and if he ... into it everything would ...”.

7) The battle of Antietam was the single ... day in American history. Yet despite ... ... this battle gave Lincoln a ... military success he needed to emancipate the slaves.

8) The abolition in the North including Frederick Douglass ... Lincoln and ... Lincoln for not moving sooner. And Lincoln took a lot of ... a lot of ... .

9) Ultimately the nation has ... Lincoln primarily than because he did so much and ... as a nation we couldn’t thank him.