Civil War Trading Cards
Assignment Sheet
Your assignment is to create your own set of Civil War Trading Cards. Using the names, events and battles listed
below, you are to research and design your own series of cards. You will be doing most of your research from
encyclopedias, Civil War books, and other resources.
You must choose AT LEAST FIVE topics from EACH column (total of 15 cards).
1. Your card should be like one that you would find in a pack of trading cards.
2. The FRONT of the card should have a PICTURE of the “person/event/battle”.
-PICTURES should be “illustrated” and “colored”.
(photocopies of pictures of paper are also acceptable)
3. The trading card itself can be and INDEX CARD, CARDBOARD, or anything that is reasonably
sturdy. (Mrs. Alls will accept it on construction paper as well.)
-Cards turned in on pieces of notebook or copy paper will NOT be accepted.
4. The BACK of the card will have INFORMATION about the “topic” of the card.
5. Please keep track of where you get your information.
For a person:
a. Brief biographical statistics (date of birth, location of birth, etc.)
b. Focus on the highlights of that person’s life AND their significance and connection to the Civil War.
For a battle:
a. Date of battle, military leaders, number of causalities, etc.
b. Focus on the highlights of the battle and its significance to the Civil War.
(who won, what it meant, etc.)
For an event/other:
a. Details of the topic and its significance to the Civil War.
*remember: each card should be FILLED with DETAILED INFORMATION!
Please remember that this must be your own work. Therefore, you should not print off the computer and
simply paste that information to the card calling it your own. Nor should you write word for word from
a text and call it your own.
Famous People/Stuff
More People/Stuff
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
William Lloyd Garrison
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Roger B. Taney
Elijah P. Lovejoy
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Emancipation Proclamation
Kansas-Nebraska Act
John Brown
Frederick Douglass
Stephen Douglass
Jeb Stuart
Mary Bickerdyke
Ely Parker
Dred Scott
Fort Sumter
Nat Turner
First Bull Run
John Brown
Fort Henry
Clara Barton
Fort Donelson
Harriet Tubman
Hampton Roads
Lucretia Mott
Battle of Shiloh
George B. McClellan
Seven Day’s Battle
Nathan Bedford Forest
Second Bull Run
Missouri Compromise
Antietam
Gettysburg Address
Fredericksburg
Senator Charles Sumner
Chancellorsville
vs. Congressman Preston Brooks
John C. Calhoun
Vicksburg
P.G.T. Beauregard
Gettysburg
Stonewall Jackson
Chickamunga
Mary Livermore
Chattanooga
Edwin Stanton
Sherman’s March to the Sea
Battles