8th Grade

Civil War Project

 

A well-equipped Confederate infantry private is shown at an early stage of the U.S. Civil War. (The Bettmann Archive)   A Union volunteer. On Apr. 15, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln called on 75,000 volunteers to suppress Southerners' rebellious "combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings." (The Bettmann Archive)

Mr. Hartmann (8th Grade Social Studies)
Stafford Middle School, Plattsburgh NY


Project Overview

Your Assignment

  1. Word Document File Format
  2. Text File (for word processors other than Microsoft Word)
    For Macs:
    Control + click and select a location to download to and then open the file

Powerpoint Example
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Control + click and select a location to download to and then open the file

 

Civil War – Starting Resources

Print Encyclopedias--Found in the Library
They are the fastest way to find information!

  • World Book

  • Encyclopedia Americana

  • Academic America Encyclopedia

  
Online Encyclopedias




Look Here for General Information About the Civil War
Please ask Mr. Puschak for the passwords so you can access the databases from home.

www.worldbookonline.com

Use ID: platts
P_ssword: see library staff

Use ID: cves
P_ssword: see library staff

http://www.school.eb.com/

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Incidents of the war. A harvest of death, Gettysburg, July, 1863
O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882, Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress)

Maps

New Map of Charleston Harbor, showing the scene of the great naval combat between the iron clad Monitor and the rebel batteries.

Map of battles on Bull Run near Manassas.

The only correct and reliable map of the battle of Bethel.

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