Guided Reading 16-3

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Guided Reading 16-3

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DO NOW Recreate the diagram below and complete
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Worked as laborers
Served as guides and spies
Served in Union army and navy
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We will learn

• Why Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation
• What role African Americans played in the Civil
  War

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I. A. 1. Why did Abraham Lincoln hesitate to move
against slavery?

• 1. making an issue of slavery would divide the
  people and make the war less popular

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2. How did Northerners attitudes toward slavery
change as the war went on?

• 2. They believed that slavery was helping the war
  effort in the South.

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B. The Emancipation ProclamationWhy did Lincoln
wait to issue theEmancipation Proclamation?

• B. He did not want to appear to be acting in
  desperation when the North seemed to be losing
  the war.

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C. 1. Why did the proclamation not actually free
any enslaved people?

• 1. It applied only to areas that the Confederacy
  controlled.

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2. What effect did Lincoln hope the proclamation
would have on the enslaved?

• 2. It would encourage them to run away from their
  slaveholders.

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3. What effect did the proclamation have in
Europe?

• 3. Great Britain and France decided to withhold
  recognition of the Confederacy.

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4. Which amendment, ratified in 1865, truly freed
enslaved African Americans?

• 4. Thirteenth Amendment

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II. A. 1. By the end of the war, what portion of
the Confederacys enslavedpopulation had fled to
Union areas?

• 1. about one-sixth

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2. What was the main reason Southerners did not
want to use AfricanAmericans as soldiers?

• 2. Southerners feared enslaved African Americans
  would use the weapons, which they would be given
  as soldiers, in a rebellion.

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B. Helping the NorthBefore they were allowed to
serve as soldiers in the Unionarmy, how did
African Americans aid the Union war effort?

• B. as guides and spies

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C. 1. What was the 54th Massachusetts?

• 1. one of the most famous African American
  regiments

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2. How did the events of July 18, 1863, win
respect for African American troops?

• 2. Nearly half of the soldiers in the 54th
  Massachusetts were wounded, captured, or killed
  in a brave attack on a Confederate fort (Fort
  Wagner, SC).

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Do you think peoples attitudes toward African
Americans in the army changed after the 54ths
attack on Fort Wagner?
Most commanding officers in the Union army were
white, even in all-African American units.
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