Civil+War



DUCKSTERS bio on Abe.

Abe and Mary had 4 kids:

Robert

Edward

William

Tad







Hello 4th grade...Mrs. Peiser and I wanted you to learn a bit about the U.S. Civil War, as you will be reading about it in Because of Winn Dixie.

Here is your project: Let's go back in time 150 years or so and pretend that you are the owner of a newspaper company. You can call your company anything you'd like. Your job is to report that the Civil War has ended. In order to do this, you must make a great headline, include a timeline of events (like the first battle, major battles, Gettysburg, etc) and include biographies of important figures during the war (like Lincoln, Lee, Grant, etc). You must also define the 4 vocab words below. One of the most important things to include is the explanation of why the war happened. Pretend the people reading your article know nothing about the Civil War, so you have to start from the beginning to explain it to them. I have included a list of questions in the box below. I have also included a list of people that you may want to include in your project. We will be working on the layout of this project together for the first few periods, then I will let you put in your own finishing touches as we progress. I hope you learn a great deal about this very important part of our history.

Here is a great site with 10 interesting facts.

Ducksters is another great choice.

Interesting facts from Ducksters.

Timeline from Ducksters. Timeline from another source.

General facts from civilwar.org

Mr. Nussbaum's page which has several different topics of Civil War info.

HERE is a link to the detailed description of how JW Booth was taken out.

Here are some things you need to include in your project:
 * When did the Civil War start and end? || What was the first battle of the Civil War? Which side made the first attack? ||
 * What 2 sides fought each other in the Civil War? || Why was the Civil War fought? ||
 * Did anybody actually win the war? If so, who was it? || What is the Gettysburg Address? Why was it so important and who gave it? ||
 * Where were the battles fought? || How many Americans died during the Civil War? How does that compare to other wars the U.S. was involved in? ||
 * What states made up the North? || What states made up the South? ||
 * Identify some of the most known battles of the war. ||  ||

Here are some people that had a major role in the Civil War:


 * 1 Abraham Lincoln**
 * Clara Barton || Jefferson Davis ||
 * Robert E. Lee || Stonewall Jackson ||
 * U. S. Grant || Andrew Johnson ||
 * Harriet Tubman || Frederick Douglass ||
 * John Brown || Harriet Beecher Stowe ||


 * **Vocab Word** || **Definition** ||
 * enlisted || to be enrolled in the armed forces ||
 * sorrow || a feeling of deep distress caused by loss, disappointment, or other misfortune suffered by oneself or others ||
 * tragedies || an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe ||
 * typhoid || an infectious bacterial fever with an eruption of red spots on the chest and abdomen and severe intestinal irritation ||

One of the most incredible speeches of all time...Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. One reason it is so loved is because of how short and to the point it is. Read on...

**Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.** **Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.** **But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.**

**Abraham Lincoln**

**November 19, 1863**

**Here are some Civil War pics from the Library of Congress.**