Organize Your Work
You will now use Organize It to outline your argument in response to the question: In what ways did the Emancipation Proclamation expand ideas of freedom and liberty in America?
The claims you make should be supported by evidence, including relevant quotations, from the videos and primary sources in the lesson. To begin, you can review your notes in “My Work” as well as any of the following:
| Keyboard Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Space | Pause/Play video playback |
| Enter | Pause/Play video playback |
| m | Mute/Unmute video volume |
| Up and Down arrows | Increase and decrease volume by 10% |
| Right and Left arrows | Seek forward or backward by 5 seconds |
| 0-9 | Fast seek to x% of the video. |
| f | Enter or exit fullscreen. (Note: To exit fullscreen in flash press the Esc key. |
| c | Press c to toggle captions on or off |
| Keyboard Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Space | Pause/Play video playback |
| Enter | Pause/Play video playback |
| m | Mute/Unmute video volume |
| Up and Down arrows | Increase and decrease volume by 10% |
| Right and Left arrows | Seek forward or backward by 5 seconds |
| 0-9 | Fast seek to x% of the video. |
| f | Enter or exit fullscreen. (Note: To exit fullscreen in flash press the Esc key. |
| c | Press c to toggle captions on or off |
Readings:
| Keyboard Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Space | Pause/Play video playback |
| Enter | Pause/Play video playback |
| m | Mute/Unmute video volume |
| Up and Down arrows | Increase and decrease volume by 10% |
| Right and Left arrows | Seek forward or backward by 5 seconds |
| 0-9 | Fast seek to x% of the video. |
| f | Enter or exit fullscreen. (Note: To exit fullscreen in flash press the Esc key. |
| c | Press c to toggle captions on or off |
Use Organize It to arrange your notes into five sections: an introduction, three supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion. Your introductory paragraph should state your argument, and the closing paragraph should summarize your conclusion. Use these questions to help structure your claims in the supporting paragraphs:
- How did the range of antislavery approaches reflect ideas about freedom and liberty in America?
- How did antislavery activists influence Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
- What did the provisions of the Emancipation Proclamation address? What was excluded? How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the debate about the abolition of slavery?
Organize It!: Your work has been submitted.
The Emancipation Proclamation
Calderwood Writing Course: U.S. History
