Civil War Project

Oral Report Due: Monday, 6/11

Directions:

            In this assignment, you will be researching important people from the 1850's through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Your job is to find the reason why each person is important to the Civil War Era.  Students will choose their Civil War Era persona in class (they will draw out of a hat).

*Do not just copy from the Internet. You must write an autobiographical piece in your own words about your important person. If you do not know what something means, look it up, or don't write it. You will be presenting your research as a “living museum,” an oral presentation given in first person autobiographical form.

Report necessities:

1. A picture of the person you researched.
2. Bibliography page with sources used to find the information used in oral presentation.

Oral Presentation: 

        

          For this part of the project, you need to become the character that you have selected, complete with costume and props.   You are to use your information that you have gathered to write a two minute speech that is written as though you are speaking as the character you are depicting.  
      Be sure that you use factual information to complete the oral presentation. The presentation can be written on index cards to help you organize your thoughts, but it must be “mostly” memorized prior to your oral report.

1. What is your name and what is your family background?
2. What city and state are you from?
3. What is your position on the war?  Are you for the North or the South?  Why?
4. What work are you doing in the Civil War?  Explain your job or work. How was it important to the war effort?
5. What tools do you use?  How do they make your job easier?
6. Who are your friends or allies?  How do they help you?
7. Did you work closely with any other group or persons in the war?
8. Write what you have learned about the person’s early years.
9. 1. Where did this person grow up?
   2. How did these childhood experiences influence the person’s achievements as an adult?
10. What were this person’s main accomplishments?
1. What factors influenced this person’s achievements?
2. What influence did this person have on the Civil War Era?
3. What is your opinion of this person’s life and accomplishments?
How has this person made an impact on others' lives?Quotes and interesting information about the person.          

What is a prop?  You must have an item that your character would have used during the war to enhance your oral presentation. For example, as a drummer boy, you would have a drum, or as Abraham Lincoln, you might have a book since he loved reading, or a scroll with the Emancipation Proclamation on it.  After researching, you may get some good ideas about what your character would have used.

Expectations: There is a rubric for the oral presentation and written speech (which will be given to the students this week). The criteria and the expectations are clear.  Have fun with this and learn a lot.  You are becoming an expert on your role. 

Civil War Websites:

Below are several Civil War websites that I have found to be great for research. Have fun exploring.

http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/civwar.html

http://www.americancivilwar.com/statepic/alpha.html

http://americancivilwar.com

http://www.nps.gov/undergroundrr/contents.htm

http://www.civilwarhome.com/timeline.htm

www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/gettex/

http://homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/civilwar.htm

www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/

  Braxton Bragg

Braxton Bragg (March 22, 1817 � September 27, 1876) was a career U.S. Army officer and a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War..http: //academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php...

  Civil War Leaders This site provides biographies of many of the leaders in the Civil War, both Northern and Southern.http: //library.thinkquest.org/3055/netscape/people...

  Civil War Women The sites focuses on material that reflects women's lives and experiences during the Civil War. Links to primary sources on the Internet that are directly related to women and the Civil War.http: //scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cwdocs.html

  David Glasgow Farragut This site provides information about David Glasgow Farraguthttp: //us-civilwar.com/farragut.htm

  Death of General Stonewall Jackson Death and Funeral of General Stonewall Jackson. A Civil War Resource from the VMI Archives.http: //vmi.edu/~archtml/cwjacksn.html

  First New York Dragoons 19th Cavalry This regiment was organized in the summer of 1862 at Portage, as the 130th infantry.http: //americancivilwar.com/north/new_york_dragoon...

  Frederick Douglass Originally named Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, Douglass was one of the most eminent human-rights leaders of the 19th century.http: //us-civilwar.com/douglass.htm

  Frederick Douglass African-American Civil War Soldiers Frederick Douglass recruited over one hundred free blacks from upstate New York for the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts.http: //americancivilwar.com/colored/frederick_doug...

  General John B. Hood American Civil War Confederate General John Hood was a hero at the Battle of Chickamauga.http: //americancivilwar.com/south/hood.html

  General Robert E. Lee American Civil War Confederate General Confederate general, born in Stratford, VA.http: //americancivilwar.com/south/lee.html

  George Brinton McClellan 1826-85, Union general in the American Civil Warhttp: //us-civilwar.com/mcclellan.htm

  George Edward Pickett Confederate Army officer during the American Civil War, known for Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.http: //us-civilwar.com/pickett.htm

  George Gordon Meade George G. Meade was one of the most competent of the Civil War's Union generals.http: //us-civilwar.com/meade.htm

  Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Beecher was a schoolteacher and writer in Hartford.http: //us-civilwar.com/stowe.htm

  Harriet Tubman Runaway slave Harriet Tubman was famous in the North before the Civil War for her work on the Underground Railroad.http: //us-civilwar.com/tubman.htm

  Harriet Tubman The life of Harriet Tubman and her role in the underground railroad.http: //nyhistory.com/harriettubman/index.htm

  Heinrich Hartmann Wirz This site provides information about Heinrich Hartmann Wirz.http: //us-civilwar.com/wirz.htm

  J.E.B. Stuart
James Ewell Brown Stuart (February 6, 1833 - May 12, 1864) was an American soldier from Virginia and a Confederate Army general during the American Civil Warhttp: //academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php...

  JEB Stuart James Ewell Brown Stuart - Confederate cavalry officer whose reports of enemy troop movements were of particular value to the Southern command during the American Civil War.http: //us-civilwar.com/jeb.htm

  James Longstreet
James Longstreet (January 8, 1821 - January 2, 1904) was one of the foremost generals of the American Civil Warhttp: //academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php...

  Jefferson Davis 1808 - 89, American statesman, President of the Southern Confederacy.http: //us-civilwar.com/davis.htm

  Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis (June 3, 1808-December 6, 1889) was an American soldier and politician. He served in the U.S. Congress..http: //academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php...

Letters From the Civil War A compilation of letters from soldiers, sailors,, nurses, poliiticans,ministers and journalists, from newspapers of the cities and towns of Massachusetts April 1861 to December 1865.http: //letterscivilwar.com/

  List of people associated with the American Civil War
This is a list of people associated with the American Civil War.http: //academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php...

  Major General Rutherford B. Hayes Citizen Soldier Major General Rutherford B. Hayes Citizen Soldier.http: //americancivilwar.com/hayes.html

  Mary Todd Lincoln Information about Mary Todd Lincoln.http: //us-civilwar.com/mary.htm

  Mathew B. Brady One of the best-known 19th-century American photographers, Mathew B. Brady, is recognized for his portraits of politicians and for his photographs of the American Civil War.http: //us-civilwar.com/brady.htm

  Maxcy Gregg One of the Confedracy's most intelligent and cultured men.http: //us-civilwar.com/mgregg.htm

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 - October 29, 1877), was a Confederate general and perhaps the American Civil War's most highly regarded cavalry and guerrilla leaderhttp: //academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php...

  Oliver Otis Howard At the outset of the Civil War, Howard, an abolitionist, was made a colonel.http: //us-civilwar.com/howard.htm

  Robert Edward Lee General in chief of the Confederate armies in the American Civil War.http: //us-civilwar.com/lee.htm

  Robert Gould Shaw Information about Robert Gould Shaw...http: //us-civilwar.com/shaw.htm

  Stephen Dodson Ramseur He began his meteoric rise through the Confederate ranks as a first lieutenant in the artillery.http: //us-civilwar.com/ramseur.htm

  Stonewall Jackson Information about Stonewall Jackson.http: //us-civilwar.com/jackson.htm

  Stonewall Jackson
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824-May 10, 1863) was an American teacher and soldier. He became a famous Confederate general during the American Civil War..http: //academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php...

  U. S. Grant 1822-85, commander in chief of the Union army in the Civil War and the 18th President of the United States,http: //us-civilwar.com/grant.htm

  Ulysses S. Grant This site provides a biography and account of Grant's feats during the American Civil Warhttp: //library.thinkquest.org/3055/netscape/people...

  Ulysses S. Grant Civil War hero American President Ulysses S. Grant Civil War hero American President Born in 1822.http: //americancivilwar.com/north/grant.html

  Varina Howell Davis First Lady of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va.http: //us-civilwar.com/varina.htm

  William Mahone
William Mahone (December 1, 1826 - October 8, 1895), was a civil engineer, teacher, soldier, and a member of the Virginia General Assembly and U.S. Congress..http: //academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php...

  William T. Sherman 1820-91, Union general in the American Civil War.http: //us-civilwar.com/sherman.htm

  Women Civil War This site focuses on the Women soldiers in the Civil War. Men were not the only ones to fight that war. Women bore arms and charged into battle, too. Like the men, there were women who lived in camp, suffered in prisons, and died for their respective causes.http: //archives.gov/publications/prologue/1993...

  Women in the Civil War A history of women in the military from the Revolutionary War to present day. Information about sexual harassment issues, current women veterans issues, and extensive information for military women, past and present.http: //userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets2.html

  eHistory.com - People eHistory.com's US Civil War - IMPORTANT PEOPLE OF THE CIVIL WAR.http: //ehistory.com/uscw/features/people/list....

Civil War Women:

Susan B.  Anthony

Clara Barton

Dorothea Dix

Emma Edmonds

Mary Todd Lincoln

Debra Sampson

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Sojourner Truth

Harriet Tubman

Dr. Mary  Walker

Civil War Men:

John Quincy Adams

John Wilkes Booth

Matthew Brady

John Brown

Henry Clay

Jefferson  Davis

Stephen Douglas

Frederick  Douglass

William Lloyd Garrison

Ulysses S. Grant

“Stonewall” Jackson

Robert E. Lee

Abe Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

George Pickett

Dred Scott

Robert Gould Shaw

Nat Turner

Denmark  Vesey

Daniel Webster

Theodore Weld