TheAfrican-Americans.pptxVIP

Unit 5 The African-Americans;Content ;;Lead-in;How much do you know about the following people? ;Michael Jeffrey Jordan(1963--);Nelson Mandela（1918-2013）;;托妮·莫里森(1931-);Martin Luther King(1929-1968);;;;Reading activities;Structure of the text;Group work: Try to work together and list the series of historical events that contributed to barack obamas victory.; contribution made by the John McCains; Civil Rights Movement; the Womens Suffragette Movement; the American Civil War; suffragette /?s?fr??d?et/ n [C] a woman who tried to gain the right to vote for women especially as a member of a group in Britain or the US in the early 20th century. 主张妇女选举权的人 ;What is the main idea of Paragraph 5? ;reading skill practice: pattern of details Page 73;Question: Do you find some examples of parallelism in the text? ; The Emancipation Proclamation The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It purported(声称; 意图; 意味着; 打算) to change the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved people in the designated(指定的，选定的) areas of the South from slave to free. It was issued as a war measure during the American Civil War and it applied to more than 3 million of the 4 million slaves at the time and proclaimed(宣告，公布; 表明; 赞扬，称颂) the freedom of slaves in ten states. ;The Proclamation lifted the spirits of African Americans both free and slave. It led many slaves to escape from their masters and get to Union lines to obtain their freedom, and to join the Union Army. The Emancipation Proclamation broadened the goals of the Civil War. While slavery had been a major issue that led to the war, Lincolns only mission at the start of the war was to maintain the Union. The Proclamation made freeing the slaves an explicit goal of the Union war effort. To ensure the abolition of slavery in all of the U.S., Lincoln pushed for passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. Congress pa