Civil+War+Homeworks

Lead up to Antietam...Special Orders 191 discovered! Click on the link below to help you answer your questions: [|Antietam]

Emancipation Proclamation document questions: 1. Read the introduction. Why was Lincoln acting so cautiously with the Confederate regions already under Federal authority? 2. According to line #2, which people were made free according to the proclamation? 3. According to paragraph #4, where does Abraham Lincoln get his power to make such a proclamation? 4. The parishes in Louisiana, and the counties in West Virginia that were exempt from the proclamation, were exempted why? 5. The proclamation only freed the slaves in the areas still in rebellion to the Federal government. Do you view this as weakness on Lincoln's part (that he wasn't a true abolitionist) or do you view it as a clever tactic used as a stepping stone to ultimately be rid of slavery in the whole country? 6. What does President Lincoln say about labor and the armed services?

Questions from the readings, Wiki videos etc for June 3. Directions: After reading the handouts from class, click on the Civil War Food link, read and answer the following questions. Then, click on the CSS Hunley video, watch and answer the questions. Food: 1. What types of items are stacked in the photo of the Union commisary depot?

2. Describe how soldiers were expected to prepare their food.

3. Briefly describe hard tack and write down a few other names that the soldiers had for hardtack.

The Hunley: 4.What date did the Hunley attack the Housatonic and then later sink? 5. What was the Hunley protrecting Charleston Harbor from?

6. Please describe how was the Hunley powered.

7. What was to be done to signal "success" from the Hunley? Was that accomplished? So what does that tell you about the sinking of the Hunley?

8. What were a few of the artifacts discovered inside of the remains of this Confederate submarine?