Civil War Technology Map Activity

1. Do Now: Using the map on page 347…list the Union and Confederate States. Objectives: Students will be able to...(1) analyze a map for key information (2) explain the main themes from the overall battlefields.

2. Map Activity (Pg. 347) • Color Code your map (2 Colors needed) • North vs. South using the map on page 347

3. Major People South • Robert E. Lee (General) • “Stonewall” Jackson (Commander) • Jefferson Davis (President) North • Ulysses S. Grant (General) • Abraham Lincoln (President) Early excitement that goes away Bounty: sum of money given as bonus

4. Civil War Technology http://www.old-picture.com/civil-war/Artillery-Civil-War-001.htm

5. Telegraph http://w1tp.com/perkcol.htm

6. http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1863/january/telegraph.htmhttp://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1863/january/telegraph.htm

7. Telegraph office http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/UsaHistory/CivilWar/Communication.htm

8. Telegraph wagon http://www.civilwarhome.com/telegraph.htm

9. Can spread info faster and more accurately http://www.webbgarrison.com/thesoldierfull/vol1fullindex.html

10. Railroads http://updatecenter.britannica.com/art?assemblyId=8341&type=A

11. http://wigwags.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/

12. http://www.old-picture.com/civil-war/Soldiers-railroad-cannon-small.htmhttp://www.old-picture.com/civil-war/Soldiers-railroad-cannon-small.htm

13. Moves supplies and People to battlefields • http://faculty.umf.maine.edu/~walters/web%20103/outline%2014%20umf%20103_06.htm

14. http://www.anselm.edu/academic/history/hdubrulle/WarandRevolutionhttp://www.anselm.edu/academic/history/hdubrulle/WarandRevolution

15. Rifled musket http://www.marstar.ca/gf-armisport/ArmiSport-Civil-War-US-rifles.shtm

16. http://scottsvillemuseum.com/forkids/Museum_in_a_Trunk/minieball.htmhttp://scottsvillemuseum.com/forkids/Museum_in_a_Trunk/minieball.htm

17. Accuracy of Smoothbore Muskets vs. Rifle-muskets Much more accurate http://www.littlestregular.com/blog/2007_02_01_archive.html

18. Rifled Cannon The Whitworth designed cannon could fire a shell over 6 miles. http://www.andrewspages.dial.pipex.com

19. http://www.georgia.gov/00/photo_article/ http://www.answers.com/topic/rifling?cat=technology http://www.aeragon.com/03/03-31.html

20. Fort Pulaski, Georgia.The accuracy and range of the rifled cannon rendered brick fortifications obsolete. http://www.georgia.gov/00/photo_article/

21. Repeating rifles http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/gabrmetz/gabr001b.htm

22. http://www.ironoutlaw.com/html/weapons.html

23. Allows more shots to Be fired more accurately Led to higher causalities For attacking forces http://www3.hants.gov.uk/museum/havant-museum/firearms/henry-repeating-rifle.htm

24. Hand grenades/rockets http://grenadelauncher.com/

25. http://www.championhillrelics.com/Images.htm

26. http://www.inert-ord.net/19cent/index.html

27. Hale rocket and rocket launcher More causalities http://warandgame.wordpress.com/2007/11/28/nineteenth-century-military-rockets/

28. Ironclads/gunboats http://www.flickr.com/photos/

29. http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1862/september/civil-war-iron-clads.htmhttp://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1862/september/civil-war-iron-clads.htm

30. http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/navalbattles1800s/ig/Civil-War-Navies/USS-Cairo.htmhttp://militaryhistory.about.com/od/navalbattles1800s/ig/Civil-War-Navies/USS-Cairo.htm

31. http://www.daylife.com/photo/0cww2hQ3EcgMh

32. http://www.britannica.com/ebc/art-13043/In-the-first-battle-of-ironclad-warships-the-Confederate-Virginiahttp://www.britannica.com/ebc/art-13043/In-the-first-battle-of-ironclad-warships-the-Confederate-Virginia

33. http://www.patternsfromhistory.com/civil_war/gunboat_quilts.htmhttp://www.patternsfromhistory.com/civil_war/gunboat_quilts.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~barrettbranches/Researchers/Karen%20Hett/B24cavindex.html Can withstand cannon Fire http://www.irononthered.com/Photographs.htm

34. Submarines http://news.webshots.com/photo/1195793651015913979KyvkEV

35. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/sub-history3.htmhttp://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/sub-history3.htm

36. http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1861/november/submarine.htmhttp://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1861/november/submarine.htm

37. Covert missions, break blockades http://shoutaboutcarolina.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/the-hunley-submarine-mystery-and-replica-operation-video-things-to-do-in-charleston-and-columbia/

38. Balloons http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1861/october/civil-war-balloons.htm

39. http://historyday.crf-usa.org/1725/cause_and_effect_during_the_civi.htmhttp://historyday.crf-usa.org/1725/cause_and_effect_during_the_civi.htm

40. http://www.old-picture.com/civil-war/Professor-military-Virginia-balloon.htmhttp://www.old-picture.com/civil-war/Professor-military-Virginia-balloon.htm

41. http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/UsaHistory/CivilWar/Communication.htmhttp://www.kidport.com/RefLib/UsaHistory/CivilWar/Communication.htm

42. Can carry information, Supplies quickly http://warandgame.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/first-military-uses-of-the-balloon/

43. Embalming http://www.old-picture.com/civil-war/Embalming.htm

44. http://www.forensicgenealogy.info/contest_65_results.html

45. Preservation of dead Soldiers More knowledge of Human body http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/05/21/embalm http://www.imageofsurgery.com/Surgery_history_art.htm

46. Generals at Bull RunGeneral Irwin McDowell vs. General PGT Beauregard

47. 1st Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) • July 21, 1861 • Confederate forces (Gen. Stonewall Jackson) get the upper hand • Union (Gen. Irwin McDowell) panicked and ran • All hope of a quick war vanishes, create myth of invincible south http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhweHadC9Mc