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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 the late summer of 1993. On President Bill Clinton’s desk sits a finished trade agreement he did not negotiate and did not sign—the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Ratifying it will create the largest free-trade zone in the world, but opponents warn it will send factory jobs streaming south to Mexico. The loudest opposition isn't from across the aisle; it’s from the heart of the Democratic coalition, organized labor, and top leaders in Congress.Your stu

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

Bring history to life with The Emancipation Decision, a high-stakes presidential simulation that challenges your high school students to step directly into Lincoln’s cabinet! Over 75 to 90 minutes, a student-led Abraham Lincoln must navigate intense, competing pressures from four iconic advisers regarding the timing and scope of the Emancipation Proclamation. But the real magic happens in Phase 3, where the teacher steps in to rigorously "stress-test" the president's decision, turning a classic