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The Content:
1. CA Content Standards:
8.10.4 Discuss Abraham Lincoln’s presidency and his significant writings and speeches
and their relationship to the Declaration of Independence, such as his “House Divided”
speech (1858), Gettysburg Address (1863), Emancipation Proclamation (1863), and
inaugural addresses (1861 and 1865)
Common Core:
1. Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.
2. Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an
accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
6. Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author’s point of view or purpose (e.g.,
loaded language, inclusion or avoidance of particular facts).
7. Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or
maps) with other information in print and digital texts.
Essential Question: What does the Election of 1860 tell us about the divisions in the
United States?
2. Objectives:
3. Materials: Abraham Lincoln’s inaugural addresses of:
1861 http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/lincoln1.asp
Give Me Liberty! By Eric Foner
Examples:
7. Closure:
SNOWSTORM!
Ask essential question to the class. Then the class writes their responses on a sheet of
paper. Crinkle the paper and toss in the air. Students pick up another classmates snowball and
reads to the instructor that person’s response.
8. Independent Practice:
Use the internet and your text to locate information to complete the following chart about the
election of 1860
(Website on Election for Student Use) https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-
presidential-election-of-1860
Political Party Political Experience Position on Slavery Region of Support
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen A. Douglas
John C. Breckinridge
John Bell