In Annual Message to Congress, Lincoln calls for passage of 13th Amendment

The 13th Amendment, prohibiting slavery, is adopted

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  Why was the Emancipation Proclamation important? While the Civil War began as a war to restore the Union, not to end slavery, by 1862 President Abraham Lincoln came to believe that he could save the Union only by broadening the goals of the war. Students can explore the obstacles and alternatives America faced in making the journey toward "a more perfect Union."

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Edison makes first sound recording on phonograph

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  Thomas Edison's Inventions in the 1900s and Today: From "New" to You!

  This lesson plan introduces students to Thomas Edison’s life and inventions. It asks students to compare and contrast life around 1900 with their own lives and helps students understand the connections between the technological advancements of the early twentieth century and contemporary society and culture.

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Impressionist painter Claude Monet dies

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  Composition and Content in the Visual Arts

  How do artists create a story that provides a message or provokes emotions in that single frame? This lesson will help students analyze ways in which the composition of a painting contributes to telling the story or conveying the message through the placement of objects and images within the painting.

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  Realistic Impressions: Investigating Movements in the Visual Arts

  Impressionism, Cubism, Realism, Neoclassicism, Mannerism. When we visit a museum or flip through a book we often see these terms, along with the word movement (or sometimes style). This lesson plan will help students to understand the idea of movements in the visual arts, and begin to differentiate between some of the most well known movements in Western art- particularly in painting.

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