Register: what makes an army ‘prepared’? Say what you see!

https://play.kahoot.it/#/?quizId=9d302b18-6b40-45c2-b246-0cd206f5a9f5 Context of the American Civil War https://play.kahoot.it/#/?quizId=9d302b18-6b40-45c2-b246-0cd206f5a9f5

By the end of this week, everybody will be able to OUTLINE the battles in the American Civil War between 1861-2 ANALYSE key debates surrounding the American Civil War 1861-2 EVALUATE who had the best army in the early stages of the American Civil War

American Civil War 1861-1862

Antietam: a turning point? Emancipation Proclamation ‘No other campaign and battle in the war had such momentous, multiple consequences as Antietam.’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjIbFTrqwU87 Emancipation Proclamation Britain and France won’t recognise the Confederacy Bloodiest Battle (scale) McClellan’s removal Ended Lee’s Strategic invasion

What makes a ‘good’ general? George B. McClellan ‘Probably no soldier who did so little fighting has ever had his qualities as a commander so minutely, and we may add, so fiercely discussed’ What makes a ‘good’ general? Use p.154 and your knowledge of the battles we have just studied to list arguments for and against McClellan being a ‘good’ General.

Armed mobs First modern war Pp.147-148 Pp.148-149 & 152 Vs. 1 point for giving a reason 2 points for explaining why your reason 2 points if you use an example/evidence to back up your points 3 points if you can link your reason, to a previous reason 3 points if you argue that a point the other side has made is wrong -2 points if you do not talk Armed mobs Pp.147-148 Vs. First modern war Pp.148-149 & 152

Who had the best army in the early stages of the war: Confederacy or Union? Confederates were winning in Virginia; the Union were winning in the West

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Eastern and Western Theatres of war East: Virginnia, W.Virginnia, Maryland and Pensylvannia West: Alabama, Georgia, N/S Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee