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PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Looking for Lincoln: The Road to Emancipation
What changed Lincoln's mind about slavery? Examine President Abraham Lincoln's mixed motivations for issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. [4:38]
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Rights Before Civil War Pt. 14: The Emancipation Proclamation
Contrary to popular opinion, the Emancipation Proclamation didn't actually free all slaves.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Emancipation Proclamation Part 1
Lincoln announces the Emancipation Proclamation.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Emancipation Proclamation Part 2
Looks at the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1865 1898: Origins of Jim Crow Part 2
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...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1844 1877: The Civil War: Emancipation Proclamation
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...