1. Introduction of the Civil War and Stations Activity

2. AKS/GPS Content Standard/s:
SS8H6 The student will analyze the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Georgia.
A. State the importance of key events of the Civil War; include Antietam, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, the Union blockade of Georgia’s coast, Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign, Sherman’s March to the Sea, and Andersonville.
Enduring Understandings:
Political, economic, and social factions within a country sometimes lead to conflict and subsequent resolution.
How did national political issues lead to the decision for Southern states to secede from the Union? (H6a)
How did key military, political and economic strategies influence the outcome of the Civil War? (H6b, E1, E2a)
How did political actions and social reactions change Southern culture after the Civil War? (H6c)

3. Essential Questions:
Analyze the events spiraled together to led Southern States into Succession.
Compare and contrast how the North and South were different at the start of the Civil War.
How did Lincoln use the Emancipation Proclamation to continue the war strategy to benefit the North? What was the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation on the national level?
Evaluate which battles Antietam, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga and how these battles marked the turning point in the Civil War that would eventually led to a Southern defeat?
Compare and contrast northern v. southern war prisons. Why were war prisons worse than fighting on the battlefield? Describe the conditions and treatment at Andersonville.
Evaluate Sherman’s Total War plan and decide based on that evidence if Sherman was a hero for his actions or a villain.

4. Vocabulary Illustrations
Total War
Anaconda Plan
Blockade
Gettysburg Address
Blockade Runners
King Cotton Diplomacy
Emancipation Proclamation
Ulysses S. Grant
Secede
Robert E. Lee
General William T. Sherman

5. Main Causes State’s Rights
Slavery-Cotton Gin by Eli Whitney in 1793 causing an increase in slavery and laws that seemed to protect the southern way of life.
Representation and Preserving the Union
High tariffs that effected the south.
Slave vs. Free States

6. Civil War Facts
1/2 million people were killed or wounded in the Civil War
60 % of the fighting took place in Virginia

7. North South 23 States 11 States Union Confederate Yankee Rebel
Blue Coats
Grey Coats
USA
CSA
Army of the Potomac River
Virginia
Federal

8. Border States (Kentucky, Maryland, & Missouri) were States that had soldiers fighting for both sides!
In the battle of Vicksburg, there were 17 Confederate armies and 22 Union armies from the state of Missouri!

9. Was the president for the North
Abe Lincoln
Was the president for the North
The North’s Capital was Washington D.C.

10. Jefferson Davis Was the president for the South.
The South’s Capital was Richmond, Virginia

11. Front Sumter, South Carolina
Since South Carolina had seceded from the United States, it didn’t want Northern soldiers on its land at Fort Sumter
Southern General Bueargard tried to get the northern general Anderson to peacefully surrender Fort Sumter.

12. Fort Sumter
The first major battle of the Civil War began on April 12, 1861.
After 2 days, the North surrendered to the South.
No one was killed but 1 soldier who was killed when a cannon backfired during the surrendering ceremony.

13. Stations/Centers
Directions

14. and the Emancipation Proclamation
Station One
Antietam
and the Emancipation Proclamation

15. Station Two
Civil War Battles

16. Station Three
Letters Home

17. Station Four
War Prisons

18. Station Five
Gettysburg

19. Station Six
Civilians and War

20. Station Seven
Civil War Generals

21. Station Eight
Timeline of Events