The Civil War 1861-1865 Was the Civil War worth its costs?
Name:___________________________ Period:___________________________ Due:_____________________________ I can identify the contribution of key individuals like Lincoln, Davis, Lee, and Grant. I can list the advantages of the Union and the Confederacy, and explain why the war lasted so long. I know the major battles of the Civil War and their impact. I can summarize how the Civil War affected all people of the United States.
Civil War Study Guide Identify these people: John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglas, General Sherman, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, Dred Scott, Ambrose Burnside, George Meade, Joseph Hooker, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, George Picket, McClellan Key battles/events – for each battle list specific details, any interesting facts, and who won: Gettysburg, Bull Run, Antietam, Fort Sumter, Appomattox Court House, Sherman’s march to the sea Answer the following questions: 1. What was the North’s strategy for winning the war? 2. What was the South’s Strategy for winning the war? 3. Why did a lot of fighting of the civil war happen in Virginia? 4. What were the North’s advantages? 5. What were the South’s advantages? 6. Why was the battle of Gettysburg significant? 7. What was Sherman’s march to the sea? 8. What was the final battle of the war and who were the commanding generals on each side? 9. What was the first state to secede? 10. What was the compromise of 1850 and why did northern not like it? 11. What is popular sovereignty? 12. What was Bleeding Kansas? 13. Who were the earliest known abolitionists in America? 14. What was the Underground Railroad? 15. What was the final event that lead to the southern states seceding from the Union? 16. Who did the Emancipation Proclamation Free? 17. What was Picket’s Charge? 18. What is the significance of Appomattox Courthouse? 19. From when to when was the Civil War? I would highly recommend reading over your map and the packet that goes with it. Use your notes for info on these key battles and don’t forget that your book has answers too! The test will be mostly multiple choice and matching.
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1.Label the 11 seceding states that made up the Confederacy. 2. Label the Union States (including the Border States) 3.Label the four Border States. 4.Locate and place on the map the Capitals of the Union and Confederacy. 5.Locate and place on the map these five major battles/events: Battle of Bull Run, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Gettysburg, Sherman’s March, Appomattox Courthouse
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Battles of the Civil War (Include Who won, what happened, Cool facts, casualties, leaders, etc)
Fort Sumter
Bull Run
Shiloh
Antietam
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
Sherman’s march to the sea (Atlanta)
Surrender at Appomattox court House
The Battle of Gettysburg Watch the selected sections of the movie Gettysburg and then answer the following questions: Ch 2 (4:14-5:08), Ch 5 (13:13-31:00), Ch 10 (35:27-41:00), Ch 12 (46:00-49:00), Ch 13 (53:19-108:45), Ch 22 (128:30-131:50). Ch 27 (146:50-end)
Why is Gettysburg such an important event for both the country and the civilians it impacted? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ What were the key events of the battle and how did they determine the outcome of the Battle of Gettysburg? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ What was Pickets Charge and what were the results? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Do you think Robert E Lee had the right to order Pickets Charge? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Gettysburg Address —“Why does Gettysburg hold such a hallowed place in American history and culture?” Gettysburg, Pennsylvania November 19, 1863 Four score 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. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate -we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Underline the part that we will memorize. Highlight the following in different colors: Words repeated more than twice Words associated with time Words associated with life and death Define the following: Dedicate Consecrate Score Answer these questions: 1. When was the Gettysburg Address given? 2. Where was it given? 3. Who gave the Gettysburg Address? 4. What is the meaning behind the Gettysburg Address?
5. Why do you think the Gettysburg address became such a famous speech?
The Good Death What was considered the good death before the Civil War?
How did soldiers try and keep this idea of receiving a good death in their last moments? What is your idea of a good death?
If you knew you only had a few minutes to live and you could write a final good bye letter who would you write it to and what would you say? Write a final letter in the space below. (write it as yourself right now… not as if you were in the civil war.) _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Photography of the Civil War: Matthew Brady 1. Who invented the daguerreotype? 2. How long was the exposure time to take a Daguerreotype? 3. What were Daguerreotypes stored in? why? 4. In what war were the first daguerreotypes taken? 5. What was so great about the collodion processes? 6. What were Ambrotypes were pictures taken on? 7. Why did Ambrotypes become more popular than Daguerreotypes? 8. How long was the exposure time for an Ambrotype? 9. What was a stereo card and why was it so popular? 10. Around how many photographs did Matthew Brady take throughout the civil war? 11. Describe the process of taking a picture in this time period. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Analyze this primary source: New York Times on Oct. 20, 1862 about Brady's New York exhibit just a month after the bloody Battle of Antietam.
“The living that throng Broadway care little perhaps for the Dead at Antietam, but we fancy they would jostle less carelessly down the great thoroughfare, saunter less at their ease, were a few dripping bodies, fresh from the field, laid along the pavement….As it is, the dead of the battle-field come up to us very rarely, even in dreams. We see the list in the morning paper at breakfast, but dismiss its recollection with the coffee….There is nothing very terrible to us, however, in the list, though our sensations might be different if the newspaper carrier left the names on the battle-field and the bodies at our doors instead…. Mr. Brady has done something to bring home to us the terrible reality and earnestness of war. If he has not brought bodies and laid them in our door-yards and along the streets, he has done something very like it.” What is the author saying about the affects of photography and the public’s view of the war? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "It was their most visceral, closest link to their loved ones," Zeller said. "For girlfriends or wives at home, the only thing they had was the ambrotype."
These images were taken by small-town photographers and traveling camp photographers, which combined topped 5,000 by the time war broke out in 1861, Zeller said. More than a million such images were produced during the war.
