"There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live..."

--John Adams

Sunday, March 2, 2025

Week of March 3-7, 2k25


Road to Civil War & Civil War Test on Day 2

Study Guide
  • Details of the Compromise of 1850
  • Details of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford Supreme Court decisions
  • John Brown...Everything about him :)
  • Abraham Lincoln's famous words in the Senate debates
  • Charles Sumner's beating
  • Election of 1860 details 
  • What were some advantages of the Union and Confederacy entering the Civil War
  • What was the deadliest weapon of the Civil War?
  • Who was your "average soldier" during the Civil War?
  • What was daily life like during the Civil War?

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Unit Q's continue...
  1. Who was the average soldier in the Civil War?
  2. How was death in the Civil War unlike anything before its time?
  3. What are some medical practices during the Civil War?
  4. What did women do during the Civil War?
  5. Who was a prominent Jew during the Civil War with & what was a difficult question Confederate Jews had to cope with?
  6. How as 1862 "A very bloody affair?"
  7. What is an ironclad & how did the ironclads change the way warfare was fought?
  8. The Battle of Antietam...
  9. What were the details of the Emancipation Proclamation?
  10. What was the turning point of the Civil War?
  11. How did Vicksburg divide the Confederacy?
  12. What made the Gettysburg Address the most important speech during the Civil War? 
  13. Who was William Tecumseh Sherman and how did his actions help end the war?
  14. What was Andersonville?