November 24-25

Learning Targets:
I can annotate the writings of Abraham Lincoln
I can explain the importance and significance of Abraham Lincoln writings.
I can explain the election of 1860.
I can explain to a peer why the election of 1860 brought about the Civil War.


Daily Question

"The question, therefore, should be quickly settled, whether free colored people, born and naturalized in this country are not American citizens, and justly entitled to all the rights, privileges and immunities of citizens of the several states; and whether the Constitution of the United States makes or authorizes any invidious distinctions with regard to the color or condition of free inhabitants.
    " For myself, I have not the shadow of doubt on the subject, I believe the at the rights of the free colored persons need only to be vindicated before the US Supreme Court, to be obtained; to no prejudice or sophistry.... can prevent their acknowledgment.
.... and that the present laws, affecting your condition are clearly unconstitutional. The facts that you have been treated, by common consent and common usage, as aliens and brutes, is not proof that such treatment is legal, but only shows the strength, the bitterness, and the blindness of prejudice

The argument put forth by William Lloyd Garrison in the passage was later contradicted in which of the following Supreme Court Decisions?
A. Dred Scott vs. Sanford
B. Ex Parte  Milligan
C. Pace v Alabama
D. Plessy v Ferguson

Agenda
Daily Question
Chapter 19 Quiz
PowerPoint on Election of 1860
Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Small Groups with 10 annotations