Task:
    You must find as much information as you can about the Civil War.  You will then write a newspaper story, create a PowerPoint slide show, and/or create a poster using your collected information.

Process:
    You will use the Internet sites below or books from the media center to find information to complete the questions below.  Once you have collected your information, you will write your article, create you slide show, or poster.

Data Sheet:  Click on the web address on top of the questions, and then answer the question or follow the directions.

 http://www.treasurenet.com/images/civilwar/

 http://rs6.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cwar:@FIELD(SUBJ+@band(+United+States++History++Civil+War,+1861+1865.+))

1.  Select one picture from the list on the site and print it out.  Look at several pictures before deciding which one you want to use for your report.  Below on the line write the web address of your picture.

   http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwtake.html

2. Describe how photographs were taken during the Civil War.

3.  Write any other information about photographs that you found on the Internet sites.

abolitionists.htm
 

4.  Who were the Abolitionists?
5.  What did they try to do?

6.  Explain what the Underground Railroad was and what it tried to do?
 

7.  Write the name of a freed slave who was a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad?
 

 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/tl1861.html

8. Write a partial timeline for the Civil War for the year 1861.

http://pbskids.org/stantonanthony/africanam_boy.html

9.  Write about a day in the life of a slave.
 

 http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/academic/history/marshall/military/civil_war_usa/pictures/lady-spy.gif

10. Name the Civil War spy discussed on the site above.   Explain what she did and how you feel about what she did.
 

cwspies.htm

11. Select the site above.  There are several spy stories.  Find one that discusses someone who spied for the North (Union) and write about that person.  Be sure to write the person's name.

 http://www.fortunecity.com/westwood/makeover/347/index.htm

http://www.IndianaintheCivilWar.com/letters/11th/WHB23aug1861.htm

http://www.IndianaintheCivilWar.com/letters/11th/WHB18feb1862.htm

12.  The site above has letters sent home from soldiers in the Civil War.  Read one or more and then in your own words describe what it was like for a young soldier.