Cvil War documents and Civil War Soldiers

Part One: Research a couple of key events related to the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation, and Gettysburg Battle Address

Part II -- You will be looking at the life of a civil war soldier and their letters from camp and field.

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation

Scroll down to the actual transcript.

What year did Lincoln issue the Emancipation?
Who was freed under the Emancipation?
Click back to the first window, and tell me why the Emancipation Proclamation was limited?
Although it did not end slavery why was it so important?


http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm

What happened four score years ago?
What have people sacrificed?


Life of Civil War soldier

http://www.civilwarhome.com/camplife.htm

This site is about the Civil War daily life.

Please write down some information about the daily camp life of a civil war soldier.

Some information to include could be the following but not limited to
---What they did we they were not fighting
---Sleeping quarters
---when they got up and they ate when in camp
--What were they expected to work between drills
What did they do for entertainment?
Other information you found useful--- prostitutes



http://www.homepages.dsu.edu/JANKEJ/CIVILWAR/diaries.htm

Part II:--- Click one of the following accounts read through it and give me some details about the letters.

Letter: Benjamin Franklin Coffman, fought at Gettysburg on side of Confederate
http://ednet.rvc.cc.il.us/~fcoffman/ShenandoahSons/bfcoffman/letter1.html

My dear Josie from the battle of Shiloh—good details
http://civilwartalk.com/forums/mason-dixon-gazette/24478-battle-shiloh-april-6-7th-1862-a-2.html

By CAPT. JOHN G. B. ADAMS. http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/Mass19.html#edno


This is from a battle on gunboat—Ft Charles http://foxweb.marist.edu/users/jwez/dfk/83/18630116DFK.html

Pennsylvania Civil War Diary of James Wren
http://www.pacivilwar.com/diary.html

African American soldier—from Illinois kind of hard to find description of battles he fought in. He mainly recruited and describes a little of camp life
http://www.geocities.com/cindyparkinson/




http://americancivilwar.com/cwstats.html
this gives list of actual casualties during the Civil War
Which day did the most casualities occur number of dead and wounded
Which battles did the most soldiers die?
Which battle did the least amount of soldiers die?


Part Two: You will be given 20 minutes to practice some multiple choice questions on the topics we have covered. This site will provide review for the regent’s type questions you will encounter

http://www.regentsprep.org/Regents/ushisgov/ushisgov.cfm


Click on Government then go to Unwritten Constitution

1. What is the unwritten constitution and give a couple of examples




2. Practice some Multiple Choice and record answers

Causes of the Civil War

US History and Gov't


Today you will pretend you are a reporter researching the Causes of the Civil War

Go to the site krugsushistory.blogspot.com

You will be assigned two events, for each you will:

1. Describe the event (year, what happened, who was involved)
2. Describe how the action of people or government led to the Civil War or further separating society
3. Describe how the people of the North reacted and People of the South
4. Was there a peaceful solution


Websites you can choose from


Dred Sott Case
http://library.wustl.edu/vlib/dredscott

www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2933.html

www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/scott/


Kansas Nebraska Act

http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/biography6text.html

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h84.html

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=661


John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry

http://www.wvculture.org/History/jnobrown.html

http://www.civilwarhome.com/johnbrown htm

http://history.furman.edu/benson/docs/jbmenu.htm




Compromise of 1850

http://www.mce.k12tn.net/civil_war/compromise_of_1850.htm


http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Compromise1850.html




Choose two political cartoons:

web.li.gatech.edu/.../write/civwar/causes.html

http://popartmachine.com/search/Political%20cartoons%201850 lots of cartoons from 1850's



This site has brief summary on the causes between the North and South in economy religion

Need to scan in FORM OF DIFFERENT SOCIETIES


http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/index.html


Political Cartoons

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~cap/SCARTOONS/car1860.html

www.boondocksnet.com/cartoons

This site contains cartoons from the Mexican American War to the Civil War, choose two cartoons from numbers 16-18. Pick two cartoons and tell them about them.




1. Describe the cartoon—(who are the characters in the cartoon)


2. What is the author’s purpose in this cartoon? (who is he demonizing?)

3. What symbols or emotions is he using?