Civil War Dates and Assignments
Section Reviews
10.1-10.4 Due 17th/21st
11.1-11.5 Due 24th/27th
Quiz 16th/17th; 22nd/23rd
Mini Civil War Project – Select ONE from options below
(no class time will be provided for this assignment)
Due: Monday 27th for ALL students by 3:30pm
E-mail address: isleyc@mepoedu.org
Research the role of women in the Civil War: nurses, soldiers, laborers, spies, etc.
Include a picture, photo, or visual representation of their activities, along with a two
slide summary of EACH of their role(s)
Minimum 5 women (5 x 3 slides = 15 slides plus title slide)
PowerPoint: highlight the technology of the Civil War: weapons, transportation,
communication, etc. (minimum 12 slides, examples of each required)
Investigate the photography of Mathew Brady. PowerPoint - Include samples of his
most important photographs with captions explaining the significance and why you
chose it. (10 pictures minimum, plus biography about Mathew Brady)
Report on medical practices during the Civil War. Be sure to address where and
how casualties were cared for and why were there so many deaths? (PowerPoint
12 slide minimum)
Create a one page ‘rap’ that discusses any event about the Civil War that is based
on slang from the Civil War era. 100 words or more
By hand, recreate a map of a historical battle from the Civil War and label what
happened there – required poster board
Civil War
Chapter 10 pg. 303
Politics of Slavery
 Differences b/w North/South
 California
 Compromise of 1850
o Calhoun v. Webster
 Popular Sovereignty
 President Taylor died in office,
Fillmore takes over
 Fugitive Slave Act
 Underground Railroad
 Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s
Cabin
 Kansas-Nebraska Act
 John Brown
 Bleeding Kansas
 Election 1856 Buchanan won
 Dred Scott Decision
 Lincoln/Douglas Debates
 John Brown’s hanging
 Election 1860
 Confederate States of America
o Montgomery, Alabama Feb. 4,
1861
 Jefferson Davis President of
Confederate states
Chapter 11 pg. 337
War Begins
 Fort Sumter, South Carolina
 April 12, 1961
 Differences b/w North and South
 Northern Anaconda Plan
 Battle of Bull Run
 General Stonewall Jackson
(Confederate)
 Lincoln appointed General McClellan
 In the West, General Ulysses S. Grant
(Union)
 Battle of Shiloh
 Revolution in Warfare
 General Robert E. Lee (Confederate)
 Battle of Antietam
 Britain and France
 Emancipation Proclamation
 Blacks role
 Habeas Corpus
 Conscription (draft)
 War affect economy on both sides
 Clara Barton – Red Cross
 Prisons - Andersonville
 July 1863 Battle at Gettysburg
 Grant wins at Vicksburg, Mississippi
 Gettysburg Address
 Confederate Morale
 Grant and William Tecumseh
Sherman (Union)
 Sherman’s March
 Election 1864
 Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
o March 1865
 Lincoln assassinated April 14, 1865
o John Wilkes Booth