Assignment Instructions for Civil War Unit

Read text Ch14, Ch15 and Ch16. 

Be able to answer the reading questions Ch14, Ch15 and Ch16.

Look at Secondary and Primary sources for the Civil War Unit. Read those that interest you. Use these as sources for discussion posts, analytic paper or timeline topics.

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For each week,

one identification or narrative  to the assignments forum on blackboard, and

at least 3 good messages a week to the discussion forum on blackboard.

Use the list below for ideas of things to research or choose your own topic

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By semester's end, you must turn in one analysis paper and one timeline. These can be about any topic related to US history up through the Civil War and Reconstruction (ca. 1870). You will have a midterm and a final examination.

Some Suggested Terms related to Civil War  for your weekly assignments

 

Identifications
Abraham Lincoln	Jefferson Davis	Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson	J. E. B. Stuart	General Winfield Scott
George B. McClellan	Ulysses S Grant	William Tecumsah Sherman
Joseph E. Johnston	Joseph Hooker	James Longstreet
George Meade	Ambrose E Burnside	Manassas
Bullrun	Antietam	Sharpsburg
Fredericksburg	Wilderness	Spotsylvania
Cold Harbor	Ex parte Merryman	Roger B. Taney
Homestead Act	Tenure of Office Act	Texas v. White
Wade-Davis Bill	Mathew B. Brady	Choose your own and identify it

 

Narratives
Harpers Ferry	Secession	The Trent Affair
Anaconda Plan	The Peninsula Campaign	Northern Virginia Campaign
Maryland Campaign	Chancellorsville Campaign	Gettysburg Campaign
Pickett's Charge	Grant's Overland Campaign	Richmond-Petersburg Campaign
Sheridan's Valley Campaign	Richmond to Appomattox	William Yancey
		Choose your own and tell it

 

For assignment posts please format the subject with your last name, assignment type and week number, e.g. roebuck-narrative-week 4.