Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Directions: Welcome! You are required to post a response to one question for each site visited. Please make sure to number the question to which you are responding in each post. Once you have met this requirement you will be eligible to receive reimbursement and in-service credit.

Perspectives on Lincoln

Decatur House Questions:

1. What was life like for the Lincoln family at the White House?

2. What are some new primary source investigative techniques that might be used in the classroom?

3. What perspectives on Lincoln's presidency did you find most interesting?

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Washington and Its Residents

Note: For today's blog, you must respond to one question for each site visited. Please indicate for each answer, the site and the question number to which you are responding.

Tudor House Questions:

1. Was the Underground Railroad an effective response to the enslavement of African-Americans? Explain.

2. How did the location of the United States Capital affect the war effort?

Frederick Douglass NHS Questions:

1. Was violence necessary to end slavery?

2. If you lived during the Civil War era which approach towards emancipation would you have supported: Lincoln's step by step tactics or Douglass' more radical line of attack?

3. How did the close proximity of Douglass' house to the White House have a positive impact on his work to end slavery and improve race relations?

4. Should Douglass have held out for universal suffrage?

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Living Lincoln

Lincoln's Cottage Questions:

1. How was President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation both a personal response and a strategic military necessity?

2. By the end of his life, why had Lincoln's ideas on the social equality of whites and blacks truly evolved?

3. How was Mary Lincoln able to effectively influence her husband?

4. Would Lincoln have been able to set forth policies that ultimately abolished slavery and preserved the nation without his political foes and cabinet members Seward, Chase and Stanton? Explain.

5. How did President Lincoln's Cottage enable Lincoln to deal with the pressures of the presidency in wartime?

Friday, July 30, 2010

Lincoln's Legacy

Ford's Theater Questions:

1. How did the Civil War make Washington DC a true center of political power?

2. How did Lincoln lay the groundwork for Reconstruction in his Second Inaugural Address?

3. Was Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address the final spark that lit the fuse of the conspiracy to assassinate him?