The American Civil War Assignment

The Civil War

Define- what is a civil war? (glossary)

• Why do you think that people start civil wars?

List – Eight (8) other names for the American Civil War? (Handout)

Explain how does the Declaration of Independence (Redbook 154-157) and the Constitution’s Bill of Rights (Redbook 244-252) both defend and attack the institution of slavery?

• If you were a slave and you read the Declaration and Bill of Rights, why would you think that slavery is illegal?
• If you were a slave owner, looking at the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights why would you say that Lincoln could not take your slaves away?
  

What side were the Confederacy or Rebels?

What about the Union or Yankees?

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Causes of the Civil War

What is sectionalism?

a). What events created sectionalism in the United States from the years 1819-1860?

b).How did these events create a division in the United States?

Why were the south upset when Abe Lincoln was elected?

What does it mean to secede?

Why did south Carolina secede in 1860?

What Advantages did the NORTH and the SOUTH have during the Civil War? (Redbook 462)

Key Civil War Figures-Use the Internet
There were several key figures for the North and the South during the Civil War. Using the internet define who Clara Barton, John Calhoun, Jefferson Davis, Fredrick Douglas, U.S. Grant, Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, Robert Shaw and William Tecumseh Sherman were as well as any other 7 from the biography list. that you are interested in

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Did all Black men choose to fight for the north? Why would they be divided when it came to choosing sides for the Civil War? (Handout)

Life during the Civil War

What jobs would women do during the Civil War?


The war was just not fought by old men. What were the age breakdown of men and kids who fought in the Civil War?

t is Conscription? (Redbook 481)

• What is another name for conscription?
  

Habeaus Corpus is what? (Redbook 481)

• Why is it needed and used?

What is the Emancipation Proclamation? (Redbook 474-476)

• Who were able to keep their slaves? Why were they able to do so? If not everyone was freed, why would Lincoln sign the Emancipation Proclamation?

• Why did NYC riot in 1863?
  

Describe what medicine during the looked like. What did treatment look like for soldiers (Redbook P 481)

Key Battles of the Civil War

Explain the events of each of the following Civil War battles. What was the results and significance of each battle?

• Fort Sumter (P. 453)
• Monitor vs. the Merrimack (P. 468)
• Battle (s) of Bull Run (P. 466-467)
• Battle of Antietam (P. 471-472)
• Battle of Gettysburg (P. 486-487)
• Total War (P. 490)
• Appomattox (P. 491)

Results of the Civil War

View the following video and the handout sheet. List and explain four results that the end of the war brought to Northerners, Southerners, African Americans or Americans