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Tell students that this lesson will take a closer look at some of the decisions Lincoln made that contributed to his widespread unpopularity at the time\u2014even as they guaranteed his place in history.<\/p>\n<p>2.  Distribute to each student the \u201cLincoln\u2019s Crossroads\u201d student organizer. Log on to <a href=\"http:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/lincoln\/flash\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cLincoln\u2019s Crossroads\u201d<\/a>. Explain that this interactive will give them the opportunity to make some of the key decisions Lincoln faced during the Civil War. As a class, play the interactive\u2019s third \u201cCrossroad\u201d about Ft. Sumter using the following <strong>Interactive Instructions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\t 1) After the onscreen Lincoln outlines his two options in this scenario, ask for a show of hands of everyone who thinks Lincoln made the first or second choice. <\/p>\n<p>\u2022\t2) Select the response in \u201cLincoln\u2019s Crossroads\u201d chosen by the classroom majority. <\/p>\n<p>\u2022\t3) Once Lincoln\u2019s response has been revealed, have students mark the corresponding checkbox on their organizer. Ask them if they would have made the same choice? Why or why not? <\/p>\n<p>\u2022\t4) Have students circle the checkbox corresponding to their own choice.<\/p>\n<p>Tell students that if they had been president and chosen, as Lincoln chose, to defend Ft. Sumter, their decision would have triggered the Civil War. Make sure students understand that their decisions in this and forthcoming rounds of \u201cLincoln\u2019s Crossroads\u201d are not necessarily \u201cright\u201d or \u201cwrong,\u201d but rather only what Lincoln either did or didn\u2019t do. Explain that many of Lincoln\u2019s decisions\u2014including his resolve to fight the Confederacy in the first place\u2014were highly controversial at the time, and that many remain so today. <\/p>\n<p>3. As a class, play the interactive\u2019s fifth \u201cCrossroad\u201d about The Merryman Case, according to the <strong>Interactive Instructions<\/strong> outlined in Step 2. Explain that Lincoln\u2019s decision to suspend the constitutional writ of <em>habeas corpus<\/em> in Maryland in 1861\u2014a policy he would extend nationwide the following year\u2014remains one of his most controversial acts as president.<em> [NOTE: If students are unclear on the definition of habeas corpus, explain that its basic premise is that one cannot be imprisoned without just cause. An interactive timeline about the history of habeas corpus can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/safefree\/detention\/habeastimeline.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/safefree\/detention\/habeastimeline.html<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>4. Ask students if anyone knows of any other occasions in American history when the writ of <em>habeas corpus<\/em> has been suspended. Explain that several presidents including Ulysses Grant, Franklin Roosevelt, and Bill Clinton have suspended or restricted this basic right during crises of war or terrorism, but that perhaps the most controversial example in our own time has been President George W. Bush\u2019s policy toward detaining prisoners without trial at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as part of the post-9\/11 \u201cWar on Terror.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>5. Tell students that they will now be looking at a segment from the PBS film LOOKING FOR LINCOLN in which President Bush himself addresses the parallels between his own controversial presidency and that of Lincoln. Provide students with a FOCUS FOR MEDIA INTERACTION by asking them: \u201cWhat was one of the nicknames given to Lincoln by his opponents and detractors?\u201d<em> (\u201cAbraham the Tyrant.\u201d) <\/em><br \/>\nPLAY Segment 1, \u201cBush on Lincoln.\u201d (Access the video segments for this lesson at the <a href=\"\/wnet\/lookingforlincoln\/lessons\/looking-for-lincoln-during-the-civil-war\/video-segments\/186\/\">Video Segments Page<\/a>). After reviewing the focus question, ask students what they think is similar in the situations faced by Presidents Lincoln and Bush? What\u2019s different? <em>(Accept all answers, but explain that wartime poses particularly difficult challenges for U.S. presidents, who are charged with maintaining often conflicting standards of constitutional law and national security. Tell students that the rest of this lesson will be devoted to exploring several such challenges in Lincoln\u2019s presidency.) <\/em><\/p>\n<p>LEARNING ACTIVITIES:<\/p>\n<p>1. Tell students that they will now be taking a look at some more of Lincoln\u2019s controversial wartime policies, starting with a segment from LOOKING FOR LINCOLN that discusses the unprecedented scale of the Civil War itself. Provide students with a FOCUS FOR MEDIA INTERACTION by asking them: \u201cHow many soldiers died in the Civil War?\u201d  PLAY Segment 2, \u201cProving Ground,\u201d PAUSING at 1:40, after Professor Gates says, \u201cThere\u2019s no better place to try and find the answers to these questions than here at Gettysburg.\u201d (Access the video segments for this lesson at the <a href=\"\/wnet\/lookingforlincoln\/lessons\/looking-for-lincoln-during-the-civil-war\/video-segments\/186\/\">Video Segments Page<\/a>). After reviewing the focus question, explain that the answer\u2014620,000\u2014exceeds the number of fatal American casualties in ALL other wars from the Revolution to the present day, and is over 200 times greater than the number of people killed on September 11th, 2001.  <\/p>\n<p>2. Ask students what they think the answer is to Professor Gates\u2019 question in the segment: Why DID Lincoln order so many men to their deaths? What was it all for? <em>(Answers will vary, but many students will answer that the war was fought to end slavery.)<\/em> As a class, log on to the \u201cLincoln\u2019s Crossroads\u201d interactive and play the sixth \u201cCrossroad\u201d about the Fremont Proclamation according to the <strong>Interactive Instructions<\/strong> outlined in Step 2 of the Introductory Activity. Ask what Lincoln\u2019s decision to revoke the Fremont Proclamation indicates about his initial purpose in pressing the war? <em>(That it was being fought not primarily to free slaves, but rather to defeat the Confederacy and preserve the Union.)  <\/em> <\/p>\n<p>3. Explain that as the war progressed, Lincoln gradually revised his opinion about the importance of freeing slaves as part of the Union cause. After a string of humiliating military defeats, he took the occasion of the Union army\u2019s victory at the battle of Antietam to issue his Emancipation Proclamation. This often misunderstood document in fact only freed the South\u2019s slaves; it did nothing to free the slaves in northern states still loyal to the Union. <\/p>\n<p>4. As a class, proceed to the eighth \u201cCrossroad\u201d about Black Troops, and play it according to the <strong>Interactive Instructions<\/strong> outlined in Step 2 of the Introductory Activity. Ask students what they think Lincoln\u2019s primary motivations were for including the provision for black troops in the Emancipation Proclamation? <em>(Answers will vary, but explain that Lincoln at this point was more concerned with raising additional manpower to save the Union, and raising morale among Northern abolitionists, than he was in ending slavery for its own sake.) <\/em><\/p>\n<p>5. Tell students that they will now be watching the remainder of the second LOOKING FOR LINCOLN segment. Provide a FOCUS FOR MEDIA INTERACTION by asking: \u201cWhat did Lincoln called the Confederates?\u201d <em>(Insurgents, rebels.)<\/em> PLAY the remainder of Segment 2 (from where Gates asks \u201cHow many men were here?\u201d) (Access the video segments for this lesson at the <a href=\"\/wnet\/lookingforlincoln\/lessons\/looking-for-lincoln-during-the-civil-war\/video-segments\/186\/\">Video Segments Page<\/a>). After reviewing the focus question, ask students where else they may have heard the term \u201cinsurgents\u201d in our own time. (Iraq.)<\/p>\n<p>6. Explain to the class that these terrible casualties sustained by the Union Army at Gettysburg on July 1-3, 1863 helped fan the flames of the next great crisis in Lincoln\u2019s presidency. As a class, return to \u201cLincoln\u2019s Crossroads\u201d and play the eleventh \u201cCrossroad\u201d about the Draft Riots according to the <strong>Interactive Instructions<\/strong> outlined in Step 2 of the Introductory Activity. Explain that it was the poor who rioted against the draft in New York City. Ask students why they think this was? <em>(They could not afford the $300 required to buy their way out of conscripted military service.)<\/em> Ask students if they can think of another instance where a national draft provoked unrest and resistance? <em>(The Vietnam War in the 1960s.) <\/em><\/p>\n<p>7. Tell students they will now be looking at a third segment from LOOKING FOR LINCOLN, and ask them to look for what Professor Gates believes is \u201cthe key to understanding the greatness\u201d of Lincoln. (His language.) PLAY Segment 3, \u201cHow Could God Have Allowed This?\u201d (Access the video segments for this lesson at the <a href=\"\/wnet\/lookingforlincoln\/lessons\/looking-for-lincoln-during-the-civil-war\/video-segments\/186\/\">Video Segments Page<\/a>). After reviewing the focus question, ask students how Lincoln defined the purpose of the war differently at Gettysburg than he had earlier? Why? <em>(Answers will vary, but encourage an understanding that the unanticipated and unprecedented human cost of the war now required a larger, greater purpose: the war was no longer just a struggle to save the political entity of the Union, but a moral crusade to end slavery. \u201cOur honored dead\u201d were now to be sacrifices made in the name of the higher ideal \u201cthat all men are created equal.\u201d) <\/em><\/p>\n<p>8. As a class, return to \u201cLincoln\u2019s Crossroads\u201d and play the twelfth \u201cCrossroad\u201d about the Thirteenth Amendment according to the Interactive Instructions outlined in Step 2 of the Introductory Activity. Ask students what Lincoln\u2019s support for the Thirteenth Amendment suggests about his views on slavery at this late point in the war. <em>(Answers will vary, but encourage an understanding that Lincoln no longer saw the permanent abolition of slavery as a means to an end\u2014i.e. the preservation of the Union, which is at this point all but guaranteed\u2014but as an end in itself, which he finally has the political capital  to impose upon the nation as a whole.)  <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>CULMINATING ACTIVITY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Have students review their \u201cLincoln\u2019s Crossroads\u201d student organizer and identify one crossroad at which they personally would have chosen differently from Lincoln. Have those students who selected the same crossroad form a group. Note that many students will not have personally decided differently than Lincoln on any issue, in which case they must now be assigned to one of the groups until there are six groups of approximately equal size\u2014one for each crossroad explored in the lesson. <\/p>\n<p>2. Either as an in-class research project or as a homework assignment (depending on available time and classroom\/library resources) assign each group to research the context and consequences of their crossroad and write a short speech justifying the choice that Lincoln didn\u2019t historically make. These speeches are not to exceed 272 words\u2014the length of Lincoln\u2019s most famous\u2014and brief\u2014speech: the Gettysburg Address. 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