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Transform Your Classroom into Lincoln’s Cabinet Chamber!It is Christmas Day, 1861. The Civil War is eight months old and going badly for the Union. A rogue U.S. warship has just seized two Confederate diplomats from a British ship on the open sea. The Northern public is celebrating, but Great Britain is furious and mobilizing for war.Your students step into the shoes of President Abraham Lincoln and his top advisers. They face a brutal strategic bind: Hand the prisoners back and face national hu

The Decision at a GlanceIt is Christmas Day, 1861. A United States warship has seized two Confederate diplomats from a British ship on the open sea. The North is celebrating. Britain is furious and is moving toward war. The President must choose: hand the prisoners back and look weak to his own people, or keep them and risk a second war against the world’s strongest navy while the first war is going badly. There is no costless option.This evidence-based classroom simulation stops at the exact mo