Social Studies Strands

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Social Studies Strands

• Thomas Miller

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Seventh Grade Social Studies Gettysburg Address
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Table of Contents

• Strands 1-8 in order, clearly labeled
• Objectives
• Materials
• Websites
• Lincoln Facts
• Presentable slides on Lincoln, the civil war, and
  the Gettysburg Address.

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Strand 1

• HISTORY
• November 19, 1863
• A nation is at war, most brutal battle had just
  taken place.
• Civil war, brother against brother, father
  against son.

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Strand 2

• PEOPLE IN SOCIETIES
• The people were torn by war.
• The identity was less by familial lines and more
  by view points of the time.
• Groups and institutions would include the
  confederacy and the union.

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Strand 3

• Geography
• Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
• At the time, few global connections could be
  made, today this is more of a national gathering
  spot.
• Map

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Strand 4

• ECONOMICS
• This time and place has little connection to
  economics.
• The north did have a much stronger economy than
  the south at this time.

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Strand 5

• Government
• This time, and this event have a great impact on
  the formation of American national government
  today.
• Had things not developed the way they had then,
  we would not be the way we are today.

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Strand 6

• Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities
• I feel that it is the responsibility of all
  Americans to understand the basics of their
  backgrounds.

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Strand 7

• Social Studies Skills and Methods
• Knowledge of what happened and when and why it is
  important to you today.

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Strand 8

• Science Technology and Society
• Use of technology to teach information.
• Websites come later

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Objectives

• To Achieve an understanding of Why the Gettysburg
  Address was so crucial and why the war it was
  given during was so crucial.

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Materials

• 1 computer (with power point)
• 1 projection screen
• 1 projector

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Websites

• http//odur.let.rug.nl/usa/P/al16/speeches/gettys
  .htm
• http//www.prometheusonline.de/heureka/politik/vor
  traege/lincoln/gett/lincgett.htm
• http//showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/sp
  eeches/gettysburg.htm
• http//www.factmonster.com/ce6/history/A0820683.ht
  ml
• http//www.kids.net.au/profile.php?id14225

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Fast Facts about Lincoln

• Took place on November 19, 1863
• Civil War began in 1861.
• Lincoln predicted the civil war in his inaugural
  speech.
• Civil war began when the south attacked Fort
  Sumter.
• Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president.

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Image of Lincoln

• Go to www.google.com images, type in Abraham
  Lincoln, click search

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Quotations of Lincoln

• "Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not
  for themselves and, under a just God, can not
  long retain it." The Collected Works of Abraham
  Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III,
  "Letter To Henry L. Pierce and Others" (April 6,
  1859), p. 376.

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Quotes

• "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a
  master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
  Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the
  difference, is no democracy." The Collected Works
  of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler,
  Volume II, (August 1, 1858?), p. 532.

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quotes

• "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in
  that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our
  duty as we understand it." Lincoln's Cooper
  Institute Address, February 27, 1860.

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Gettysburg Address quote

• The Gettysburg Address Nov. 19, 1863
• Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought
  forth on this continent a new nation, conceived
  in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that
  all men are created equal.
• Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing
  whether that nation or any nation so conceived
  and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a
  great battlefield of that war. We have come to
  dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place
  for those who died here that the nation might
  live. This we may, in all propriety do. But in a
  larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot
  consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The
  brave men, living and dead who struggled here
  have hallowed it far above our poor power to add
  or detract. The world will little note nor long
  remember what we say here, but it can never
  forget what they did here.
• It is rather for us the living, we here be
  dedicated to the great task remaining before
  us--that from these honored dead we take
  increased devotion to that cause for which they
  here gave the last full measure of devotion--that
  we here highly resolve that these dead shall not
  have died in vain, that this nation shall have a
  new birth of freedom, and that government of the
  people, by the people, for the people shall not
  perish from the earth."

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Lincoln as a President

• Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural
  Address "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow
  countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous
  issue of civil war. The government will not
  assail you.... You have no oath registered in
  Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall
  have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and
  defend it."
• Lincoln thought secession illegal, and was
  willing to use force to defend Federal law and
  the Union. When Confederate batteries fired on
  Fort Sumter and forced its surrender, he called
  on the states for 75,000 volunteers. Four more
  slave states joined the Confederacy but four
  remained within the Union. The Civil War had
  begun.
• The son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Lincoln had
  to struggle for a living and for learning

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Lincoln Sketches his own life

• "I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County,
  Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia,
  of undistinguished families--second families,
  perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my
  tenth year, was of a family of the name of
  Hanks.... My father ... removed from Kentucky to
  ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild
  region, with many bears and other wild animals
  still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course
  when I came of age I did not know much. Still
  somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but
  that was all."

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Friends on Lincoln

• Lincoln made extraordinary efforts to attain
  knowledge while working on a farm, splitting
  rails for fences, and keeping store at New Salem,
  Illinois. He was a captain in the Black Hawk War,
  spent eight years in the Illinois legislature,
  and rode the circuit of courts for many years.
  His law partner said of him, "His ambition was a
  little engine that knew no rest."

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Family

• He married Mary Todd, and they had four boys,
  only one of whom lived to maturity. In 1858
  Lincoln ran against Stephen A. Douglas for
  Senator. He lost the election, but in debating
  with Douglas he gained a national reputation that
  won him the Republican nomination for President
  in 1860.

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Lincolns Party

• As President, he built the Republican Party into
  a strong national organization. Further, he
  rallied most of the northern Democrats to the
  Union cause. On January 1, 1863, he issued the
  Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever
  free those slaves within the Confederacy.

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Re-election

• Lincoln won re-election in 1864, as Union
  military triumphs heralded an end to the war. In
  his planning for peace, the President was
  flexible and generous, encouraging Southerners to
  lay down their arms and join speedily in reunion.

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Lincoln Quiz

• When did Lincoln Threaten the Civil War?
• Quote the Gettysburg Address.
• Give another Quote of Lincolns and explain it in
  your own words
• Who did Lincoln Marry?
• How did Lincolns Friends describe him?
• What party did Lincoln make strong?
• Re-create Lincolns life sketch.
• Was Lincoln re-elected? If so, what year?
• How many boys did Lincoln have?
• When and how did Lincoln Free the Slaves?

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Artistic Rendition

• You have seen pictures of Abraham Lincoln, you
  may either re-create one of them, create your own
  picture of him, write a poem about him, make a
  song for him, or any other artistic Endeavor
  which you see fit.

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Strand 1 Activities

• 1. Make a time line of the civil war.
• 2.list 5 changes from that time to our time.
• 3.write a story placing yourself as Lincolns
  right hand man, tell me what this was like.
• 4.Would you want to have lived back then, why or
  why not?
• 5.What existed then, that still exists now?

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Strand 2 Activities

• 1. Discuss how you think the people then would
  act.
• 2. Do you think you would have gotten along with
  someone from back then? Why or why not?
• 3. How do you think people are similar and
  different from then to now?
• 4. What do you think your family was like back
  then?
• 5. Are you happy to be alive now, or would you
  have rather lived back then?

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Strand 3 Activities

• 1. Draw a map of your town back then.
• 2. Draw a map of what you think the country
  looked like back then.
• 3. Draw a map of your town then, next to a map of
  your town now.
• 4. Make a three dimensional model of a town in
  1865.
• 5. Sketch a picture of the world then, compared
  to a globe of the world now in the classroom.

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Strand 4 Activities

• 1. go to http//www.frbsf.org/currency/civilwar/
  
• And tell me what you find about our economy
  compared to theirs.
• 2. The south issued millions of dollars for the
  war effort, how much does a war effort cost
  today?
• 3. If the south spent millions of dollars over 4
  years, say they spent 1 million a year, how much
  did they spend a day, week, month? How does that
  compare to today.
• 4. What types of economys did the north and
  south have then? Compare them.
• 5. Who had a stronger economy us then, or us now?

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Strand 5 Activities

• 1. Describe our government in 1861.
• 2. Describe our government in 1865.
• 3. Compare our government today with our
  governments of 1861 and 1865.
• 4. Simulate a debate between the president of the
  north and the president of the south in 1860.
• 5. Name 5 major differences between the
  government of then and now.

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Strand 6 Activities

• 1. Who were allowed to be citizens in 1860.
• 2. What does the constitution say about
  citizenship?
• 3. What do we say about citizenship today?
• 4. Who are citizens today? Are you?
• 5. Compare and contrast citizenship today with
  then.

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Strand 7 Activities

• 1. Review factual material
• 2. Review speeches and personal accounts of
  people at that time.
• 3. Read stories about what happened and why.
• 4. Give our own accounts on what happened.
• 5. Relive Debates, acting them out in class.

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Strand 8 Activities

• http//odur.let.rug.nl/usa/P/al16/speeches/gettys
  .htm
• http//www.prometheusonline.de/heureka/politik/vor
  traege/lincoln/gett/lincgett.htm
• http//showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/sp
  eeches/gettysburg.htm
• http//www.factmonster.com/ce6/history/A0820683.ht
  ml
• http//www.kids.net.au/profile.php?id14225