LAD 21: McKinley's War Message

McKinley starts of by telling congress that Cuba is a hostile country costing the Americans greatly and has done nothing but humiliate them. Cuba revolts against the Spanish in 1895 and McKinley takes the side of the Cubans. He convinces congress to declare war on Spain after they supposedly sunk the USS Maine. Guerrilla war tactics were used making the war very violent. Fearing the war would come to the US McKinley, wanting to save the American people, sought to end the war quickly. The sinking of the Maine is a form of yellow journalism used as propaganda for the war.

LAD 19:"Ain't I a Woman?"

In Sojourner Truth's speech she speaks about being just as equal as white women and just as strong as men. She is trying to open up everyone's eye's to how hard it is to be not only a wowan but a black woman as well. She says that white woman get special treatment and favors from men but black freed slave women do not get any treatment. She also says that she can do anything a man could, she can eat as much and take any punishment a man would. She is proud to be a black woman and whats to be treated equally.

LAD 18: "What To The Slave Is The 4th Of July?"

Frederick Douglass' speech is about why he was asked to give a speech on the 4th of July when he and his fellow freed slaves had nothing to do with the Revolutionary War and the Declaration of Independence. he is upset that they are asked to celebrate a holiday that signifies the Americans freedom when they were not given any.

LAD 17: Emancipation Proclamation

On January 1, 1863, Lincoln passed the Emancipation Proclamation which banned slavery in the states that had seceded. Although it did not free slaves on the border states i.e Kentucky, Missouri, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware or the southern states under Union control. Lincoln used his executive power under the Constitution to declare the Emancipation Proclamation even though it wa not followed.

LAD 16: Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln

In Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address, Lincoln makes a shorter message to the people then his first. He mostly wanted to tell the people what was going on with the Civil War. He says that no one wanted war on either side but it was inevitable. Lincoln states the problem of slavery that divided the nation and was the cause of war. To end his address he says that the war will end and unite the Union once and for all.

LAD 15: Dred Scott Decision

The Dred Scott Decision was a decision by the United States Supreme Court, Cheif Justice Roger B. Taney, that ruled that people of African descentim brought to the US and forced to be slaves, or their descendants whether or not they were slaves—could never be citizens of the US, and that the Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories. It also ruled that slaves could not sue their masters or anyone else.

LAD 14: Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." This line is Lincolns most famous line in his history of being president. It shows his whole idea that everyone , man, women, whites, blacks, they are all equal. On November 19, 1863, Lincoln made his Gettysburg Address on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg, where hundreds of Americas died, southern and northern. Lincoln's main goal of this speech was to reconnect the Union. He wanted the bloodshed to end.