Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Looking for Lincoln: The Road to Emancipation

9th - 10th
What changed Lincoln's mind about slavery? Examine President Abraham Lincoln's mixed motivations for issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. [4:38]
Audio
Center For Civic Education

60 Second Civics: Rights Before Civil War Pt. 14: The Emancipation Proclamation

9th - 10th
Contrary to popular opinion, the Emancipation Proclamation didn't actually free all slaves.
Audio
Center For Civic Education

60 Second Civics: Emancipation Proclamation Part 1

9th - 10th
Lincoln announces the Emancipation Proclamation.
Audio
Center For Civic Education

60 Second Civics: Emancipation Proclamation Part 2

9th - 10th
Looks at the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1865 1898: Origins of Jim Crow Part 2

9th - 10th
Explains how the South responded to the end of slavery by enacting the Black Code laws that prevented African Americans from exercising the rights they had been given, e.g., voting. To combat this, Congress passed the Fourteenth...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1844 1877: The Civil War: Emancipation Proclamation

9th - 10th
Discusses how Abraham Lincoln found himself having to support the end of slavery after initially believing he would just be trying to keep it from spreading. The Emancipation Proclamation was written some time before it was declared as...