Name:______Date:______

Civil War Timeline Research Project

Learning Targets:

  1. Students will be able to sequence –and- definethe key events of the Civil War.
  2. Students will be able to explain how people of diverse backgrounds, i.e., different social classes,

races,genders, and ethnicities were affected by the Civil War.

  1. Students will be able to interpret primary source documents from the Civil War time period

-and- use them to compare and contrast the similarities and differences between the daily lives

ofConfederate soldiers, Union soldiers, and civilians.

Part 1: Key Events

You will be given a significant event from the Civil War time period. You must research this event to learn as much as you can about it.

Your Event:______

Requirements:

  1. Complete Timeline Event Template and save to your P-drive.
  2. Find a primary source document that discusses your event. Save this document to the group Diigo and use the “post-it and highlighter” features to mark significant information in your document; explain on the post-it’s why you found this information interesting.
  3. Find a picture that adequately represents your event. Trace your picture onto the drawing paper provided and color the picture with colored pencils.
  4. Using the template provided, type a synopsis of your event. Include the who, what, where, when, why information from the timeline event template. This template should be printed out, cut on the paper cutter, glued to the inside of your drawing, and then matted to construction paper provided. Font: ARIAL Font Size: 8.5

Part 2: Pivotal People

You will be given a pivotal person from the Civil War time period. You must research this person to learn as much about him/her as possible.

Your Person:______

Requirements:

  1. Complete the Timeline Pivotal Person template and save it to your P-drive.
  2. Find a primary source document (preferably a diary entry) that discusses your person. Save this document to the group Diigo and use the “post-it and highlighter” features to mark significant information in your document; explain on the post-it’s why you found this information interesting.
  3. Create a twitter account if you don’t have one. Tweet a quote from your person..as if it were the person talking. Link the journal entry or primary source into your tweet for others to see. You will also have to include the hash tag listed below that applies to your class so that we can create a trending topic.

Gumm 2hr #rvcw1 / Mertens 7hr #rvcw3 / Overby 3hr #rvcw5
Gumm 8hr #rvcw2 / Mertens 8hr #rvcw4 / Overby 7hr #rvcw6
  1. Find a picture of your person, and fit it into the template provided on the template sheet. Using your information, write a synopsis of your person’s life. Fit it into the template provided. Paste the picture on the front and the info on the inside of the footprint provided. You will also need to type the person’s name into a text box template.

Font: ARIAL Font Size: 8.5

Part 3: Technical Terms

You will be given a technical term from the Civil War time period. You must research this term/word to learn as much about it as possible.

YourTerm: ______

  1. Find a primary source document that discusses your term. Save this document to the group Diigo and use the “post-it and highlighter” features to mark significant information in your document.
  2. Add your word and definition to the templates provided. Print them out and paste them to the “cannon” picture.

Font: ARIAL Font Size: 8.5

Part 4: Soldier Accoutrements

You will be given a term pertaining to soldier’s daily lives from the Civil War time period. You must research this term/word to learn as much about it as possible.

YourTerm: ______

  1. Research your term, and then describe it on your Civil War class blog. Include a link to a picture that represents your item.

Mr. Gumm’s Blog

Mrs. Overby’s Blog

Mrs. Mertens’s Blog

  1. Add your word and definition to the templates provided. Print them out and paste them to the “kepi” picture.

Font: ARIAL Font Size: 8.5

Part 5: Your Birthday Event 

Search the internet for a Civil War event that happened on your birthday in any year during the Civil War. Type the information inside the star. Put the date and describe the event.

  1. November 1860 Lincoln elected President
  2. December 1860South Carolina secedes
  3. February 1861Confederacy formed
  4. March 1861Lincoln inaugurated
  5. 1861Camp Randall Opens
  6. April 1861Fr. Sumter attacked
  7. June 1861West Virginia becomes a state
  8. July 4, 1861Lincoln requests army
  9. July 21, 1861Bull Run
  10. March 1862Monitor vs. Merrimac
  11. April 1862Shiloh
  12. September 1862Antietam
  13. September 23, 1862Emancipation Proclamation
  14. December 1862Fredericksburg
  15. March 3, 1863Military Draft (1st ever)
  16. May 1863 Government established the Bureau of Colored Troops
  17. May 1863Chancellorsville
  18. July 1863Vicksburg
  19. July 1863Gettysburg
  20. July 1863Pickett’s Charge
  21. July 13-16 1863Draft Riots
  22. September 19, 1863Gettysburg Address
  23. November 1863Chattanooga
  24. February 24, 1864Andersonville Prison Camp opens
  25. June 28, 1864Arlington Cemetery Opens
  26. September 1864Atlanta to Savannah (Sherman’s March to the Sea)
  27. November 11, 1864Sherman orders Atlanta burned to the ground
  28. January 31, 186513th amendment ends slavery
  29. April 9, 1865Lee Surrenders
  30. April 14, 1865Lincoln Assassinated
  31. April 26, 1865John Wilkes Booth killed

People:

  1. Matthew Brady
  2. Robert E. Lee
  3. Ulysses S. Grant
  4. William T. Sherman
  5. Abraham Lincoln
  6. Stonewall Jackson
  7. Jefferson Davis
  8. George Pickett
  9. John Wilkes Booth
  10. Clara Barton
  11. Jesse Woodson James
  12. Francis Pickens
  13. Louisa Hawkins Kanby
  14. Horace Greeley
  15. Julia Ward Howe
  16. Belle Boyd
  17. Rose O’Neil Greenhow
  18. Opothleyahola
  19. Mary Todd Lincoln
  20. David D. Porter
  21. George Meade
  22. Carrie Berry
  23. Wilmer McLean
  24. Traveler
  25. William Carney
  26. Hartwell Carver Tompkins
  27. Cole Younger
  28. Mary Chesnut
  29. Robert Gould
  30. Henry Wirz
  31. James Longstreet
  32. Mary Surrat

Terms:

  1. Habeas Corpus
  2. Conscription
  3. Bounty
  4. Total war
  5. Ironclad
  6. Antebellum
  7. Brigade
  8. Campaign
  9. Cavalry
  10. Flank
  11. Infantry
  12. Scurvy
  13. Copperheads
  14. Cotton-clads
  15. Furlough
  16. Parapet
  17. Sutlers
  18. Flying battery
  19. Bivouac
  20. Hot shot
  21. Company
  22. Foraging
  23. Parole
  24. Picket
  25. Reveille
  26. Minie ball
  27. Skirmish
  28. Trenches
  29. Repeating rifles
  30. Reconnaissance
  31. Typhoid

Soldiers Accoutrements:

  1. Bummer
  2. Embalmed beef
  3. Kepi
  4. Cartridge
  5. Haversack
  6. Housewife
  7. Scabbard
  8. A Beat
  9. Bones
  10. Greenback
  11. Johnny
  12. Vittles
  13. Sawbones
  14. Jonah
  15. Shirker
  16. Brogan
  17. Yank
  18. Quick-step
  19. Grayback
  20. Arkansas Toothpick
  21. Pepperbox
  22. Hornets
  23. Possum
  24. Dogrobber
  25. Goober Pea
  26. Litter
  27. Quaker gun
  28. Powder monkey
  29. A.W.O.L.
  30. Shebangs
  31. Contraband