Mary todd lincoln biography report graphic organizer
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Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
Unit Objective
This lesson on Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address is part of Gilder Lehrman’s series of Common Core–based units. These units were written to enable students to understand, summarize, and analyze original texts of historical significance. Students will demonstrate this knowledge by writing summaries of selections from the original document (and related documents) and, by the end of the unit, articulating their understanding of the complete document by answering questions in an argumentative writing style to fulfill the Common Core Standards. Through this step-by-step process, students will acquire the skills to analyze any primary or secondary source material.
Lesson 1
Objective
In this lektion, students will analyze Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address. A graphic organizer will guide them as they read sections of the address, select key vocabulary and critical text, and summarize each section.
Introduction
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The Mary Lincoln Enigma: Historians on America's Most Controversial First Lady [1 ed.] 9780809331253, 9780809331246
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Holly Bennett Beth Burkhimer
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“This provocative collection goes a long way toward demolishing the one-dimensional caricatures that have dogged Mary Lincoln over the last century and a half. Leaving no controversial subject unaddressed, each chapter brings original research together with the insights of a wide-ranging assortment of experts in history, law, psychiatry, mode, and the arts, and confronts the enduring myths with hard realities. Sensitively written and multifaceted in focus, this volume eschews simplistic conclusions in favor of opening new questions and embracing conflicting answers about the precise dimensions of Lincoln’s life. A compelling and important book about an ‘enigmatic’ nineteenth-century woman.” —Amy Murrell Taylor, author of The Divided Famil
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First Lady of the United States from 1861 to 1865
For other women named Mary Lincoln, see Mary Lincoln.
Mary Ann Todd Lincoln (December 13, 1818 – July 16, 1882) served as the First Lady of the United States from 1861 until the assassination of her husband, President Abraham Lincoln, in 1865.
Mary Todd was born into a large and wealthy slave-owning family in Kentucky, although Mary never owned slaves and in her adulthood came to oppose slavery. Well educated, after finishing-school in her late teens, she moved to Springfield, the capital of Illinois.
As in the first lesson, a Graphic Organizer will guide them through the study of key words, critical text, and the paraphrasing of each section of text.She lived there with her married sister Elizabeth Todd Edwards, the wife of an Illinois congressman. Before she married Abraham Lincoln, Mary was courted by his long-time political opponent Stephen A. Douglas.
Mary Lincoln staunchly supported her husband's career a