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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like Historians: Emancipation Proclamation

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[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students consider whether Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, or the slaves freed themselves by comparing excerpts from the Emancipation Proclamation and The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.

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abraham lincoln, frederick douglass
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document-based, end of slavery, free slaves, historical claim, historical inquiry, dbq, sheg: document based history: reading like historians: emancipation proclamation, primary source, text of the emancipation proclamation
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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