Analyzing Quotes

For each quote write what you think it means in your own words A. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

B. I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races; that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people And I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.

C. This refers to The Fugitive Slave Law: I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.

D. A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

E. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation Proclamation: On the 1st day of January, in the year of our lord 1863, all persons held as slaves within any state or part of a state (whose) people shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforth , and forever free. A. Summarize in your own words

B. What were the immediate effects?

C. How do you think the following people felt about the Emancipation Proclamation? Abolitionists:

Free Blacks in the North:

Racist northerners:

On the below spectrum, place Lincoln where you think he lands in comparison to people of his time. Explain why (2-3 sentences)

____________________________________________________________________ Abolitionist Middle Racist Plantation Owner