Name _______________________________ Pottsville Area High School American History 2 Chapter 11 Map – Civil War Project Mr. Kempsey Assignment #1 (Test Grade) – Choose a category below that interests you. Research and write a persuasive documented essay based on your findings. Assignment #2 (Quiz Grade) – Create a Powerpoint presentation for a “visual” explanation of your paper. http://amhist2kempsey.wikispaces.com/ Antebellum Choose the three most important causes of the Civil War: o Territorial expansion in the West o Southern dependence on slavery o Growing difference in population o Poor political leadership o The rise of a sectional party, the Republican Party o Northern Industrialization (factories) o The moral debate over slavery o The growth of southern nationalism through states’ rights o Intrusion of slavery into free states (i.e. Dred Scott Decision) o The growth of northern nationalism through “Union” Choose the three most important Abolitionists (Anti-slavery): o John Brown o Wendell Phillips o William Lloyd Garrison o Frederick Douglass o Gerrit Smith o Harriet Beecher Stowe o Elijah Parish Lovejoy o Theodore Dwight Weld o Thomas Garrett o George Luther Stearns Choose the three most influential “Fire-Eaters” (Southerners who wanted to split from the US): o Robert Barnwell Rhett o William Lowndes Yancey o John C. Calhoun o Edmund Ruffin o Lawrence Keitt o Louis T. Wigfall o James D.B. De Bow o William Porcher Miles o Thomas R.R. Cobb o John S. Preston Military Life Choose the three Civil War Weapons that made the biggest “impact” on the war: o Rifled firearms o Bayonets o Swords o Pistols o Smoothbore Muskets o Breechloading carbines o Grenades o Artillery o Pikes and lances o Mines aka torpedoes Choose the three most important/best foods/staples in a soldier’s diet and explain how abundant or scarce they were in supply: o Water o Bread o Salt pork o Corn o Beans o Fresh meat o Coffee o Peas o Salt beef o Fresh fruit Choose the three most important surgical tools and/or medications a Civil War surgeon had at his disposal: o Mercury o Alcoholic beverages o Plants o Bandages o Scalpel o Suture thread o Probes o Tourniquet o Bone saw o Anesthetics Choose the three worst/most common (non-combat) ways to die during the Civil War: o Dysentery and diarrhea o Died of wounds o Typhoid o Prison o Pneumonia o Malaria o Smallpox o Tuberculosis o Measles Home Front Choose the three best/most popular Civil War Era songs (Think…Which songs would the soldiers have on their ipod? That is, if they had ipods): o “I wish I was in Dixie’s Land” (“Dixie”) o “John Brown’s Body” (“Battle Hymn of the Republic”) o “Home Sweet Home” o “Battle Cry of Freedom” (“Rally Round the Flag”) o “Bonnie Blue Flag” (“We are a Band of Brothers”) o “Maryland, My Maryland” o “Lorena” o “We are Coming, Father Abraham” (“300,000 More”) o “Tenting on the Old Camp Ground” o “All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight” Overall Choose the three most significant Civil War “Firsts”: o First National Income Tax in American History (August 5, 1861) o First Paper Money as Legal Tender (February 25, 1862) o First Battle Between Ironclads (March 9, 1862) o First National Military Draft in American History (April 16, 1862) o First Production of Machine-Stitched Shoes (1862) o First US Medal of Honor (March 25, 1863) o First Female Surgeon in US Military History (September 1863) o First Time a Submarine ever Sank an Enemy Ship (February 17, 1864) o First Assassination of an American President (April 14, 1865) o First Woman Executed by the US Government (July 17, 1865) Choose the three most significant/important battles of the Civil War: o First Manassas (Virginia, July 21, 1861) o Forts Henry and Donelson (Tennessee, Feb 6, Feb 12 – 16, 1862) o New Orleans (Louisiana, April 23 – 25, 1862) o The Seven Days’ Battles (Virginia, June 25 – July 1, 1862) o Antietam (Maryland, September 17, 1862) o Chancellorsville (Virginia, May 1 – 4, 1863) o Gettysburg (Pennsylvania, July 1 – 3, 1863) o The Surrender of Vicksburg (Mississippi, July 4, 1863) o The Wilderness (Virginia, May 5 – 6, 1864) o Jonesboro (Georgia, August 25 – September 1, 1864) Choose the three best commanding generals of the Civil War: o William Tecumseh Sherman (US, Ohio, 1820 – 1891) o Ulysses S. Grant (US, Ohio, 1822 – 1885) o George H. Thomas (US, Virginia, 1816 – 1870) o Philip Sheridan (US, NY, 1831 – 1888) o Patrick Cleburne (CS, Ireland, 1828 – 1864) o Nathan Bedford Forrest (CS, Tennessee, 1821 – 1877) o Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson (CS, Virginia, 1824 – 1863) o Robert E. Lee (CS, Virginia, 1807 – 1870) o James Longstreet (CS, SC, 1821 – 1904) o James Ewell Brown “Jeb” Stuart (CS, Virginia, 1833 – 1864) Choose the three worst commanding generals of the Civil War: o George B. McClellan (US, PA, 1826 – 1885) o Ambrose Burnside (US, IN, 1824 – 1881) o John C. Fremont (US , GA, 1813 – 1890) o Nathaniel P. Banks (US, MA, 1816 – 1894) o Benjamin F. Butler (US, NH, 1818 – 1893) o Joseph E. Johnston (CS, VA, 1807 – 1891) o Braxton Bragg (CS, NC, 1817 – 1876) o Leonidas Polk (CS, NC, 1806 – 1864) o Earl Van Dorn (CS, MS, 1820 – 1863) o John Bell Hood (CS, KY, 1831 – 1879) Choose the top three bloodiest battles: o Shiloh, TN (April 6 – 7, 1862) o Second Manassas, VA (Aug 29 – 30, 1862) o Antietam, MD (Sept 17, 1862) o Fredericksburg, VA (Dec 13, 1862) o Stones River, TN (Dec 31, 1862 – Jan 2, 1863) o Chancellorsville, VA (May 1 – 4, 1863) o Gettysburg, PA (July 1 – 3, 1863) o Chickamauga, GA (Sept. 19 – 20, 1863) o The Wilderness, VA (May 5 – 6, 1864) o Spotsylvania, VA (May 7 – 12, 1864) Choose the three deadliest/worst military prisons during the Civil War: o Camp Douglas, IL (US) o Point Lookout, MD (US) o Elmira, NY (US) o Fort Delaware, DE (US) o Camp Chase, OH (US) o Rock Island, IL (US) o Camp Morton, IN (US) o Salisbury, NC (CS) o Florence, SC (CS) o Andersonville, GA (CS) Choose the top three military blunders of the Civil War: o General Leonidas Polk (CSA) Enters Kentucky (Sept 3, 1861) o General Gideon Pillow’s (CSA) Canceled Breakthrough (Battle of Fort Donelson, Feb 14 – 16, 1862) o General Ambrose Burnside’s (USA) Bridge (Antietam, Sept 17, 1862) o Assault on Marye’s Heights (Battle of Fredericksburg, Dec 13, 1862) o Breakdown of the Prisoner Exchange (1863 – 1865) o General Joseph Hooker’s (USA) Switch to the Defensive (Chancellorsville, May 1 – 4, 1863) o General Pickett’s Charge (CSA) (Battle of Gettysburg, July 3, 1863) o General Ulysses S. Grant’s (USA) Assaults at Cold Harbor (Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864) o Battle of the Crater (Petersburg, July 30, 1864) o General John Bell Hood’s (CSA) Assault on Major General John Schofield (USA) (Battle of Franklin, Nov 30, 1864) Choose the top three heroines of the Civil War that every American should know of: o Clara Barton o Mary Ann Bickerdyke o Catholic Nuns o Harriet Tubman o Mary Livermore o Sally Louisa Tompkins o Dorothea Dix o Elizabeth Cady Stanton o Susan B. Anthony o Annie Etheridge o Kate Cumming Today Choose the top three films about the Civil War: o The Birth of a Nation (1915) o The General ( 1927) o Gone with the Wind (1939) o Red Badge of Courage (1951) o Shenandoah (1965) o Glory (1989) o Gettysburg (1993) o Andersonville (1996) o Cold Mountain (2003) o Gods and Generals (2003) Choose the top three national battlefield sites that every American should visit: o Gettysburg National Military Park and Cemetery o Shiloh National Military Park and Cemetery o Antietam National Battlefield Site and Cemetery o Pea Ridge National Military Park o Vicksburg National Military Park o Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park o Petersburg National Battlefield o Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield o Manassas National Battlefield Park o Stones River National Battlefield and Cemetery Choose the top three Civil War cemeteries that every American should visit: o Blandford Church Cemetery o Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, VA) o Oakwood Cemetery o Vicksburg National Cemetery o Nashville National Cemetery o Arlington National Cemetery o Fredericksburg National Cemetery o Memphis National Cemetery o Andersonville National Cemetery o Chattanooga National Cemetery