Cold Mountain Viewing Guide

“Cold Mountain” Viewing Guide

Name: ______Date: ______

Directions: As you watch the movie, fill in the key points. You do not need to use complete sentences, but your answers should make sense to me! The questions are not necessarily in order.

1.  Which region of the U.S. (North or South) are Union troops fighting for? ______Confederate? ______

2.  In what state is Cold Mountain? ______

3.  Why has Ada left Charleston, South Carolina, and returned to Cold Mountain?

4.  BUILD CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS THROUGH VISUALS!

Watch and then describe what happens at the Battle of the Crater during the Siege of Petersburg, Virginia after watching the full opening scenes. Be specific enough to show you “get it”. Ulysses S. Grant called this battle “the saddest affair I have ever witnessed” (sidenote: this site is only an hour’s drive north of Raleigh…you can still see the crater today!)

5.  Ada asks Inman if he’s going to get his “tintype” made. What is a tintype?

6.  DID YOU LEARN IN AMERICAN HISTORY I? What effect did this new technology of tin-typing have during and after the Civil War as citizens began to see these pictures on the battlefields? If you didn’t learn this effect, THINK and draw a conclusion.

7.  Are the “Yankees” northerners or southerners? ______

8.  During the scene where Ada, her father, and Inman take a walk on the plantation, what do you think Inman means when he says, “I imagine God is weary from being called down on both sides of an argument”?

9.  DO YOU REMEMEBER FROM American 1? What “device” does Inman use to clear the top field? Who invented this device?

10.  DID YOU LEARN? When Inman is in the hospital, he is helped by many nurses. Who is the most famous of Civil War nurses and what famous non profit did she found that is still used to help raise money today?

11.  What is the role of the Home Guard?

12.  Is the Home Guard made up of Northerners or Southerners? ______

13.  What does Ada give Inman before he leaves for the war? ______

14.  On what side of the war is Inman fighting (Union or Confederacy)? ______

15.  Why does Inman escape the hospital?

16.  Why did the minister tell Inman he was trying to throw the African American woman in the river?

17.  Why did Sally Swanger not invite Ada and Ruby into her home that raises their suspicions? (What were her and her husband guilty of doing?)

18.  When Inman encounters Sara and her baby living alone, who are the “visitors” that show up in the morning? ______

19.  What did they want?

20.  Describe some challenges do you see for women living in the South throughout the Civil War.

21.  What happens to Ruby’s father and his friends in the woods?

22.  BRINGING KNOWLEDGE TOGETHER: On a separate sheet of paper AFTER the movie you will staple to this one, write a short summary essay analyzing the following prompt, Use information you remember from American History 1 AND what you’ve learned during the movie to answer the question:

·  In what ways did the Civil War affect the region of the South during and after the wars socially, politically, and economically.