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Daily Life during the War

Daily Life during the War. Chapter 15- Section 4. Topics for Today. Emancipation Proclamation. Democratic Party worried that slaves would take jobs Abolitionists argued that the Union would continue to be divided Emancipation would anger voters Slave labor helping the Confederates. .

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Daily Life during the War

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  1. Daily Life during the War Chapter 15- Section 4

  2. Topics for Today

  3. Emancipation Proclamation • Democratic Party worried that slaves would take jobs • Abolitionists argued that the Union would continue to be divided • Emancipation would anger voters • Slave labor helping the Confederates.

  4. Emancipation Proclamation

  5. 54th Massachusetts Infantry • Consisted mostly of free African Americans • 1863 Led a heroic charge on South Carolina’s Fort Wagner

  6. 54th Massachusetts Infantry • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGKBgJFnPLc

  7. Copperheads • Northern Democrats • Called for the war to end • Peace Democrats • Midwesterners that sympathized with the South and opposed slavery

  8. Copperheads

  9. Habeas corpus • Habeas corpus- a constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment • Lincoln suspended the right to habeas corpus

  10. Difficult Lives of Soldiers

  11. Clara Barton • The “angel of the battlefield” • Organized the collection of medicine and supplies for delivery to the battlefield. • Volunteered at the field hospitals

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