The Civil War
Entry 1 - 1/28/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 10 Pg 344
What were the “Border states”?
What advantage did the South’s army have when the war began? Pg 351
Identify two big advantages that the North had coming into this war?
Compare the inflation that both the North and South faced during the war? 352
Entry 2 - 1/29/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 11 Pg 353
How was the Confederate government considered “weak”?
Why were the British unwilling to recognize the Confederacy early in the war?
Define Attrition
What was the South’s strategy for winning?
Entry 3 - 1/30/2025 - PowerPoint
How many volunteers did Lincoln call for after Fort Sumter?
What was the first major land battle of the war?
List the “War of Firsts”
Entry 4 - 1/31/2025 - Ol Bue Ch 11 Pg 360
Why did the Union want to capture the city of Corinth Mississippi?
Why did some people think Lincoln should fire General Grant?
Assignment
2/3/2025 - Civil War Medicine WebQuest
Entry 5 - 2/4/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 11 Pg 362
Why did the General Lee lead his army into Maryland?
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
Entry 6 - 2/5/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 11 Pg 364
Compare the wartime economies of both the North and the South during the war.
What was the 54th Massachusetts?
Who were Elizabeth Blackwell and Clara Barton?
What was Andersonville?
Entry 7 - 2/6/2025 - PowerPoint
Which battle was the “high water mark” for the Confederacy?
What happened on the final day with Pickett’s Charge?
Friday 2/7/2025 - Assignment
Civil War Battles PowerPoint
PowerPoint due on Wednesday Feb. 12 = 70 Points
Entry 8 - 2/11/2025 - Gettysburg Address
What happened “four score and seven years ago”?
What does Lincoln tell us about this new nation?
What does Lincoln mean by, “the great task remaining”?
What is the unfinished work that those listening to the speech are asked to achieve?
What is meant by the “last full measure of devotion”?
Entry 9 - 2/12/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 11 Pg 378
What was Sherman’s goal during his famous March to the Sea?
Who ran against Lincoln in the election of 1864?
What was the 13th Amendment?
Where did Robert E Lee surrender to Grant?
Civil War Review - Test Tomorrow
Entry 1 - 2/18/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 12 Pg 387
What was the condition of the South at the end of the war?
What was the goal of Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction?
What were the 3 goals of the Radical Republicans?
Entry 2 - 2/19/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 12, Pg 388
What was the Wade-Davis Bill?
How did Lincoln block it?
What was the task of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Reconstruction WebQuest1
Entry 3 - 2/20/2025 - Ol Blue CH 11, Pg 380
Who killed President Lincoln?
Page 391 - Who was Lincoln’s vice president?
Who did Johnson exclude from his plan to pardon former Confederates?
2/21/2025 - Chapter 12-2 Worksheet in class
Monday - Registration with Counselor for Senior year
Entry 4 - 2/25/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 12 Pg 393
What were Black Codes?
What rights does the 14th Amendment guarantee?
What was the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867?
Entry 5 - 2/26/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 12 Pg 394
What does impeach mean?
Why did Congress pass the Tenure of Office Act?
What was the 15th Amendment?
Reconstruction WebQuest2
For #15 click on this link - Reconstruction success or failure
Entry 6 - 2/27/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 12 Pg 399
What are Carpetbaggers and Scalawags?
How was the Republican Party able to take power in the South?
Define Graft
What were the Enforcement Acts?
Friday - Registrations are due with your counselors
Reconstruction Era Timeline - 20 points
Entry 7 - 3/4/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 12 Pg 405
How did the Democrats “redeem” the South?
Why did the election of 1876 need to be resolved by a special commission?
What was the Compromise of 1877?
Define Sharecropping
Entry 8 - 3/6/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 13 Pg 416
Why did Americans in the early 1800s think that cattle ranches on the great Plains were not practical?
What is Open Range?
What were the two things that changed the minds of cowboys rounding up Longhorns?
Who many cows were brought along the Chisholm Trail?
Entry 9 - 3/7/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 13 Pg 418
Who was Nat Love?
Why did Range wars erupt out West?
So,.. You want to be a Cowboy?
Entry 10 - 3/10/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 13 Pg 421
What was meant by the slogan, “Rain follows the plow”?
What was the Homestead Act?
What was the Morrill Act?
Why did wheat prices drop in the 1890s?
Entry 11 - 3/11/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 13 Pg 423
Where was the last large track of government land opened for settlement in 1889?
What did the US Census Bureau announce in 1890?
Why was the announcement concerning to some people?
Entry 12 - 3/12/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 13 Pg 426
Why did the Dakota Sioux launch an uprising in 1862?
Where did the Lakota Sioux defend their territory against William Fetterman?
Entry 13 - 3/18/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 13 Pg 428
Why was the Indian Peace Commission doomed to failure?
Why did the railroad companies hire sharpshooters?
Why was General Custer sent into Montana Territory in 1876?
Entry 14 3/19/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 13 Pg 430
What was the Ghost Dance?
How did the US govt try to assimilate the Native Americans?
Why did the Dawes Act fail?
3/20/2025 - Assignment - CM Russel Artwork
Entries are Due - End of the Quarter!
Dances With Wolves Questions:
Day 1:
1. Why does John Dunbar ride his horse in front of the Confederate Army?
2. Why did he choose a post on the Frontier?
3. What is the shape of Fort Sedgewick?
Day 2:
1. Why do the kids steal Dunbar’s horse?
2. During the Sioux council in the Teepee, Why are the Lakota hesitant to kill Dunbar?
3. Why does Dunbar go to the Indian village?
Day 3:
What did John Dunbar do to gain the respect of the Indians?
What did they encounter when they first caught up to the herd of buffalo?
Who had done this to the buffalo?
