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.
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Antebellum
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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”
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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
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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)
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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
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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