NAME: ________________________________________
PERIOD: ______________________
CIVIL WAR TRADING CARDS
Directions: Create a trading card (similar to a baseball card) for each of the people/events listed below.
Each card should contain the name of the event/person as well as a picture on front AND have at least 4
facts related to the American Civil War on back. These facts should include: (See example on back)
1. Role in the Civil War (including specific date for the battles)
2. Significance to the war and its outcome
3-4. AT LEAST 2 other facts about the person or event.
UNION
CONFEDERATE
President Abraham Lincoln
President Jefferson Davis
General Ulysses S. Grant
General Robert E. Lee
General William T. Sherman
General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson
General Winfield Scott
General Joseph E. Johnston
General George B. McClellan
General Nathan B. Forrest
Admiral David Farragut
Lieutenant George E. Dixon
BATTLES
Siege of Fort Sumter (1861)
Battle of First Manassas/Bull Run (1861)
Battle of Shiloh (1862)
Battle of Antietam (1862)
Battle of Chancellorsville (1863)
Battle of Gettysburg (1863)
Siege of Vicksburg (1863)
Siege of Petersburg (1864)
Atlanta Campaign/Battle of Atlanta (1864)
Battle of Wilmington (1865)
Surrender at Appomattox Court House (1865)
CIVIL WAR TRADING CARDS
SEE EXAMPLE BELOW
EXAMPLE FRONT
1.
EXAMPLE BACK
SIGNIFICANCE: Chickamauga (the “River of
Death”) was the second bloodiest battle in
the American Civil War & the worst defeat
for the Union Army in the Western
Theatre.
DATE: September 19-20, 1864
ROLE: The Union Army, under GEN William
Rosecrans, invaded Georgia in an attempt
to defeat and capture the Confederate
Army under GEN Braxton Bragg and
thereby end the war in the Western
Theatre.
OUTCOME: Confederate Victory, Union
Army retreats to Chattanooga