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Neh: Edsit Ement: The Emancipation Proclamation: Freedom's First Steps Lesson Plan

Neh: Edsit Ement: The Emancipation Proclamation: Freedom's First Steps Lesson Plan

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Neh: Edsit Ement: The Emancipation Proclamation: Freedom's First Steps

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By reading and studying a variety of written resources--the Emancipation Proclamation and newspaper archives--high school students explore the steps Lincoln took towards emancipating the slaves and freed slaves' reaction to the Emancipation Proclamation.

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abraham lincoln, civil war

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edsitement, edsitement: the emancipation proclamation: freedom's first steps, emancipation proclamation, lincoln's administration, slaves freed in the confederacy, emancipation

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9th - 10th

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Social Studies & History

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