Block 5 Civil War Learning Stations

Block 5 Civil War Learning Stations

Station 1 New England

Group Member 1 -

1) Explain why northern factory owners would be upset over the Civil War, and with the Emancipation Proclamation (1863). What did this document do? (http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/emancipate.htm)

2) Explain why Irish Immigrants would want to join the Union Army soon after they got to America during the Civil War. (http://www.history.com/topics/the-irish-brigade)

3) Why would some people consider Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Book, author of, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the “Spark” for the Civil War? What were the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act, and how did they inspire her? (http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/utc/)

Group Member 2 -

1) Who was Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and what was the most important battle that he influenced? Why was Chamberlain promoted and to what? (http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/joshua-lawrence-chamberlain.html)

2) What seemed to be Chamberlain’s priority before the outbreak of war? After he was promoted did he return to battle? If so, what battle? (http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/joshua-lawrence-chamberlain.html)

3) What and where was Chamberlain’s forces “Trial by Fire” and what battle did they not show up to and why? (http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/joshua-lawrence-chamberlain.html)

Group Member 3 -

1) Why would most of the railroads be covering the areas of the manufacturing states. (Life in the North During the Civil War, Page 14)

2) How did the network of canals and railroads connect almost every state along the East Coast? (Life in the North Civil War, Page 14)

3) Explain how the Fugitive Slave Act further divided the North and the South. What was the North's response to this act? (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/452952/personal-liberty-laws/)

Group Member 4 -

1) What did Mathew Brady do during the Civil War that really brought the war to the household and to history as a whole? (Civil War America 1850 to 1875, Page 287)

2) How and what were the differences between asylums and jails in the eyes of Dorothea Dix? Did she get what she wanted changed? (Civil War America 1850 to 1875, Page 289-290)

3) What type of Northerners would be in favor of slavery and who would be opposed to slavery? What were their main views on the subject? (http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/abolitionism/abolitionists.htm)

Links-http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/joshua-lawrence-chamberlain.html

Station 2 – Mid Atlantic

Mid-Atlantic Civil War Events

Directions

1.  Have each person pick a color (red, green, pink, or yellow)

2.  Each color represents an event that happened in the Mid-Atlantic during the Civil War. (Red=Battle of Antietam, Green=Emancipation proclamation/Gettysburg Address, Pink= Underground Railroad/Harriet Tubman, and Yellow= Fredrick Douglas)

a.  Whoever in the group has Fredrick Douglas may finish early and can then help with the Emancipation Proclamation and Gettysburg Address

3.  Each topic has a video and some basic points to help you understand each event and person

4.  After you have watched the video on your topic share with your group what you learned and any notes you may have taken

5.  Collaboratively answer the questions at the end of this document

6. 

Battle of Antietam:

·  September 17, 1862

·  Sharpsburg, Maryland

·  McClellan launched attacks against Lee’s army- from behind the Antietam Creek

·  Despite their large Numbers McClellan’s attacked failed

·  Lees army moved away from the battle area back towards Virginia

·  There was no clear winner, but since the Confederate troops withdrew from the battlefield it was considered a Union Victory

·  This victory have Lincoln the confidence to announce his Emancipation Procla

http://www.history.com/topics/battle-of-antietam/videos#the-battle-of-antietam (video)

Emancipation proclamation:

·  On September 22, 1862, Lincoln said that in 100 days all slaves under control of Union

* would become free

·  January 1, 1863 was when Lincoln actually named the 10 states that the Proclamation would apply

·  Abraham Lincoln was president

·  This freed all slaves from the Confederacy

·  In 1865, the thirteenth amendment was added to the Constitution, saying slavery is illegal everywhere in the United States

·  http://www.history.com/topics/emancipation-proclamation/videos#gilder-lehrman-the-emancipation-proclamation (video)

Gettysburg

·  July 1- 3, 1863

·  Adams County, Pennsylvania

·  Battle last three days and the second day was the costliest and bloodiest of the battle

·  Lincoln gave his famous Gettysburg Address here

·  On the second day of the battle, the union soldiers defended a range of hills and and ridges south of gettysburg.

·  Picketts Charge was meant to pierce the Union lines but failed causing Lee and his soldier to retreat back to Virginia

·  http://www.history.com/topics/battle-of-gettysburg/videos (Video)

Underground Railroad:

·  It was a network of secret networks and safe houses used for slaves to escape to free states

·  Harriet Tubman

·  Rescued over 300 slaves in 19 trips

·  Quilts were made and left in the paths with hidden codes embroidered into them

Harriet Tubman:

·  Born into slavery

·  Abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy

·  Made more than nineteen missions to rescue more than 300 slaves

·  Underground Railroad

·  Worked for the Union army as a nurse and cook, and then as an armed scout and spy

·  Guided the Combahee River Raid which freed more than 700 slaves

·  Known as “moses”

·  http://www.history.com/topics/harriet-tubman/videos#harriet-tubman-and-the-underground-railroad (Video)

Frederick Douglass from Maryland

·  He escaped from slavery and becomes a leader of the abolitionist movement

·  He wrote books describing his experience as a slave

·  He had borrowed a sailor’s uniform, and obtained papers that identified him as a seaman. He boarded a train in Baltimore and traveled to Havre de Grace, crossed the Susquehanna River by ferry, and then continued by train to Wilmington, Delaware, from there to Philadelphia by steamboat, and from there to New York City, again by train.

·  http://www.history.com/topics/frederick-douglass/videos (video)

Questions

1.  Why do you think Lee’s army moved back if McClellans attack failed?

2.  Why do you think Abraham Lincoln did not have the Proclamation go into effect on September 22, 1862?

3.  Why were quilts left along the Underground Railroad?

4. What do you think July in 1863 was like for the townspeople of Gettysburg?

5. What did Lincoln call his "greatest and most enduring contribution to the history of the war"?

6. Why do you think the battle of Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle?

7. Why did Harriet Tubman go back to help other slaves? Why did she risk her life to help other slaves?

8. Describe how you think Douglass felt to go from a slave to leader in the abolitionist movement.

9. Why was Harriet Tubman known as “moses”?10. What battle was General Robert E. Lee was stopped in his move northward toward the Union capitol, forcing him into Pennsylvania?

11. What is another name for the Battle of Antietam?

Station 3 – Virginia

Go to http://www.history.com/topics/harpers-ferry/videos#john-browns-raid and watch the video on John Brown’s Raid

1. Was John Brown a martyr for African Americans or insane?

2. Even though John Brown was hung during the raid, in the long run how does this assist in the freeing of slaves?

Go to http://www.virginiaplaces.org/military/civwar.html and click on Map of the

Virginia Railroads at the Start of the Civil War

3. Why did the Confederates and the Yankees fight at Manassas? What was the significance and who was the hero?

Go back and click on Northern Virginia After First Manassas.

4. How was Northern Virginia affected by Manassas?

5. How were the confederates affected by Manassas?

6. Which out of the 4 options would you choose after Ox Hill if you were Lee? Why?

Go to http://www.historynet.com/appomattox-court-house-battle

7. Why did Lee not want to surrender? In the end, why did he have to surrender?

8. When did Confederate commanders begin to surrender after the Appomattox court house battle?

9. What were the terms of surrender?

Go to http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/american_civil_war_and_virginia_the

10. Under The American Civil in Virginia: Why did most virginians support the confederacy? How was it beneficial?

11. Under African Americans: What was the problem with the emancipation proclamation and where was it implemented?

Station 4 - Southern Coastal

Person 1-Fort Sumter, Battle of Atlanta

Person 2-Sherman’s March to the Sea, Importance of North Carolina Coast

Person 3-Battle of New Bern, Blockade Runners

Person 4-Fort Fisher, Women’s Roles, Life of a Soldier

Fort Sumter

Use the book Fields of Fury (pg. 16) to answer the following question

1. Why did Governor Francis Pickens demand that Federal property in that state be given up?

2. Why was April 12th at 4:30 A.M. an optimal time for the Confederates to attack Fort Sumter?

3. Who won out at the Battle of Fort Sumter? Why was this victory important?.

4. What states also succeeded from the Union after the Battle of Fort Sumter?

5. What happened the Richmond, VA capitol building? How did the people react to this?

6. What happened at Fort Sumter and what was the result of this?

Battle for Atlanta

http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/civilwarinthewest/p/battle-of-atlanta.htm

1. How did the Union have an advantage against the Confederacy?

2. Why was the Union putting down rails for a railroad?

3. What happened to the Confederates and the Union?

4. How was the Union able to hold of the Confederates?

5. How many casualties did the Union and Confederate have.

6. What would have caused the Union to completely expose their flank?

Sherman’s March to the Sea

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/sherman.htm

1. What was Sherman’s first attempt to defeat the Confederates?

2. What did Sherman decide to do after this first attempt failed, and why?

3. Why do you think Sherman decided to cut the telegraph wire

4. Why do you think former slaves joined Sherman’s army?

5. Describe Sherman’s scorched earth campaign.

6. In the end, who came out victorious?

Importance of North Carolina Coast

http://www.coastalguide.com/packet/civilwar-nc-coast.shtml

1. Which Confederate region held the most importance to the Union? Why did this region hold so much importance to the Union?

2. Control of what geographical areas was necessary to cut off the supply routes?

3. Why did the many rivers and streams that ran through Eastern Carolina serve importance?

Battle of New Berne

http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/nc003.htm

1. How did the Union travel to New Berne? Why did they travel to New Berne?

2. How did the Union drive the Confederates from their fortifications in New Berne?

3. How many forts were captured by the Union during the war? Were the Confederates able to recover the town?

Blockade Runners

http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/navy-hub/navy-history/the-blockade-runners.html

1. What did blockade runners do, and how did the Blockade Runners play a major part for the Confederates?

2. Describe the typical blockade runner:

3. What were the dangers of being a blockade runner?

4. What was the main thing blockade runners were trying to get? Why was this so important?

5. Why were the blockade runners necessary for the Confederate army?

Fort Fisher

http://www.nchistoricsites.org/fisher/main.htm

1. Why was the port of Wilmington so important to the Confederates?

2. Why did the capture of Fort Fisher seal the fate of the Confederates?

3. Why was Fort Fisher considered the “Gibraltar of the South?”

4. What is the importance of the date December 24, 1864? January 12, 1865?

5. What role did the 27th US colored troops play in capturing the fort?

6. Why did the Civil War end soon after the capturing of Fort Fisher and Wilmington?

Women's Roles

http://www.history.com/topics/women-in-the-civil-war

1. What did the war do for woman? How did their view change on their role in society?

2. What can you infer that woman started to want after the Civil War?

Life of the Soldier

Read the letters on the board that the Confederate soldier wrote to his mother.

1. What was life generally like for him? Do you think he wanted to fight?

2. Why did the young lady give him a flag?

3. Do you think that Eli Pinson would have seen the Washington Monument if he was not a soldier? Why would he not have in this day in age?

Station 5 – Deep South

Vicksburg:

Go to this website: http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/index.php?id=215, and read the article. Then answer the questions.

1. How did the siege impact the people living in the town of Vicksburg?

2. Why were caves built into the sides of hills?

3. What types of rooms were there in the caves?

4. How did the women help during the siege at Vicksburg?

5. Why did Margaret Lord refuse a Yankee’s help?

6. What was the Lost Cause Movement?

7. Why do you think that white men were willing to work beside their slaves while building the caves?

8. How did the siege affect the upper-class women?

9. Who was captured at the battle at Raymond?

10. How long did the siege last and when did it end?

11. Why do you think the people decorated their cave rooms with items from their homes? Explain.

Ku Klux Klan: http://www.history.com/topics/ku-klux-klan

1.How did the Ku Klux Klan impact African American and Southern republicans lives?

2. When and Where was the First clan of the Ku Klux Klan formed?

3.The Klan was put together by ______veterans?

4. Who became the leader or known as the “Grand Wizard” of the KKK?

5. T or F: The KKK only tried to attack and intimidate African Americans?

6. The Klan dressed in a white hood and white gown. What did this outfit represent?

7. The most notorious state for Klan activity was?

8. What was the purpose for the KKK?

9. How many KKK members attacked the Union County Jail?

10. Which amendment granted protection for all slaves?

The Southern Homefront

Go to this website:http://www.ushistory.org/us/34d.asp, read the article, and answer the following questions.

1. How did the northern blockade of ports effect the South while preparing for war?

2. Did women’s roles in the South change? If so, do you think it was a burden or do you think they were happy to help? Explain your answer.