Earth Day

PowerPoint on Commas

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/commas_big.htm

Gettysburg Address

Video - http://www.civilwar.org/education/teachers/lesson-plans/gettysburg-address-lesson-plan/the-gettysburg-address-lesson.html

PowerPoint - Parts 1&2

Gettysburg Address - http://www.civilwar.org/education/teachers/lesson-plans/gettysburg-address-lesson-plan/gettysburg-address-worksheet.pdf

Influential people of the Civil War

Research the following influential people from the Civil War.  Write a couple of paragraph's about each person's contribution to the war.

• Abraham Lincoln
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Jefferson Davis
• Robert E. Lee
• Stonewall Jackson
• Frederick Douglass

Civil War Timeline

http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/civilwar/1860.htm

Civil War Background Info

Video about events leading up to Civil War - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7NYYCkvwQQ

	North	South
Economic Differences	factories, favored taxes that protected them from foreign competition	large plantations, opposed taxes that would raise prices and hurt sales to New England states
	money not plentiful, but developing	prospered from farming tobacco & cotton
Cultural Differences	freedom for slaves	depended on slavery
	urban society, people held jobs	lived in small villages and on farms
Constitutional Differences	Strong central government, wanted the nation to stay together	State's rights important (secession)

North v. South interactive map - http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/underground_railroad/map.htm

Causes of the Civil War

	The North and the South had different attitudes toward slavery, free labor (paid) versus slave labor (unpaid)
	Confederate troops bombarded a Union stronghold, Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina, April 12, 1861.
	Ways of life were different for both sides: plantations versus factories.
	On state's rights the North argued no state had a right to secede from the Union, the South argued a state could leave the Union if it voted to do so.

Underground Railroad

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/underground_railroad/

The end of the Civil War

http://www.ducksters.com/history/robert_e_lee_surrenders.php