CIVIL WAR BATTLE PROJECT With your groups you

CIVIL WAR BATTLE PROJECT • With your groups you will be taking your research on you Civil War Battle and putting it on a poster • For your poster you need the following information: • Geographic location (maps help) is the information Outcomes/ Significance most important • Commanders (names, pictures) • Forces involved • Strategies and goals (this will take some writing) • Outcome and casualties (killed and wounded are separate numbers) • Significance-what did this battle do? Did it give one a side a city, did it force a new strategy? • pictures portraying the battle

SHILOH • What did the battle show about Grant? Why did they fight there?

BATTLE OF HAMPTON ROAD • How did it change naval battles? • How did the British and Spanish react when they heard about this battle? • Why did both sides start making ironclad ships?

ANTIETAM • How was the Emancipation Proclamation tied to this battle? • How did this change the leadership in the Union Army?

VICKSBURG • How did this change the war? • What was the importance of attacking here?

BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG • What was Pickett’s charge? • How was this massively important for both the North and the South? • How did this change the war?

SHERMAN’S MARCH • How did it start? • How did it change the war politically? • What is total war?

PROJECT NOTES • You will rotate throughout the room to each project and in your notebooks you will copy the following information • Name of battle and head general for each side • Goals/strategies • Outcome • Significance