PRMS 8th Grade: Civil War Final: Databases

 

On the Front Lines

*Must use at least 1 book or magazine and 1 database 

• Key Battles:
  • Article 1
• More Important Battles
• Daily Life/Camp Life of Soldiers (food, activities, conditions, drills, Union or Confederacy)-use camp life to search
• War at Sea (naval battles, Monitor versus Merrimack (search as Monitor vs Virginia), river war, gunboats)
  • Article 1
• Military Leaders and their War Strategies (Grant, Lee, Jackson, Sherman etc.)
• Technology 
  • Article 1
  • Article 2
  • Article 3
• Discrimination on the Battlefield- 54th Infantry and Black Troops in the Civil War 

 

The Untold Story

*Must use at least 1 book or magazine and 1 database 

• Espionage and Intelligence: Spies in the Civil War (Men & Women)

• Women Soldiers in the Civil War

• Black Leaders

• 54th Infantry and other black soldiers

• Civil War Journalism, Art & Photography (Matthew Brady)

• Music

           Civil War Music

            List of Enslaved People's Spirituals

            Explanation of Enslaved People's Music

• Women

 

Persecution and Resistance:

*Must use at least 1 book or magazine and 1 database 

 

• Middle Passage (slave ships and arrival to country-Amistad and Joseph Cinque, Roger B. Taney; Olaudah Equiano)
• Life of Enslaved People (culture and conditions of enslavement)
• Prisoners of War (Andersonville, Elmira, Libby, Belle Isle, treatment, food, daily life)
• Underground Railroad and Abolistionists (Harriet Tubman, Thomas Garrett, Josiah Henson, Laura Haviland, Quakers, conductors, Fugitive Slave Act, Northern Star)

 

Politics:

*Must use at least 1 book or magazine

• Abraham Lincoln and his Presidency (Lincoln-Douglas Debates, views on slavery, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, suspending habeas corpus)

• Lincoln's evolving views websites: 
  • Article 1
  • Article 2
  • Article 3
• Frederick Douglass' relationship with Lincoln
  • Article 1 
  • Article 2
• Mary Todd Lincoln and family history of slavery
• Mary Todd Lincoln: marriage and Presidency
• Personal Finances

 

Children and Teen

*Must use at least 2 books or magazine

• The Boy’s War (Civil War)
  • Article 1
  • Article 2
  • Article 3

 

The Homefront:

*Must use at least 2 books

• Daily Life for Civilians 
  • South- economy i.e: cotton diplomacy, society, effects of war such as surrendering property and goods to the military, political views ie: secession, food riots
    • Article 1
    • Article 2
    • Article 3
  • North-economy, society including freemen, effects of war, political views ie: Fugitive Slave Act
    • Article 1
    • Article 2

Medical:

*Must use at least 1 book or magazine and 1 database 

• Overview
  • Article 1
• Field Hospitals
• Statistics
• Nurses and Doctors (Elizabeth Blackwell)
• Clara Barton and the American Red Cross
• Technology and Medical Advances
  • Article 1
  • Article 2
• Disease, Wounded, and Amputations
  • Article 1
  • Article 2
  • Article 3
• Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome and Addiction: 
  • Opium: https://library.medicine.yale.edu/blog/great-risk-opium-eating-how-civil-war-era-doctors-reacted-prescription-opioid-addiction
  • Alcohol: https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2015/09/20/forty-rrod-blue-ruin-oh-be-joyful-civil-war-alcohol-abuse/
  • Post-traumatic Stress: https://www.civilwarmed.org/ptsd/