Abe Lincoln Goes To Washington
By: Cheryl Harness
Activities created by Angela Orr, Graduate Assistant
Directions: Using the map of Battles of the Blue and Gray 1861-1862 answer the following
questions.
1. How many victories are listed on the map for each side?
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Confederacy ______________
2. What was the bloodiest day, and location of the war?
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3. How many men were lost, hurt, or killed? _____________________________
4. What was the 1st great battle of the Civil War? ___________________________________
5. How many men were hurt, killed, or missing ? __________________________________
Abe Lincoln Goes To Washington
By Cheryl Harness
Activities created by Angela Orr, Graduate Assistant
Directions: Using the map of America in 1858 answer the following questions.
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1. List all the free states:
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2. What do you notice concerning the location of the free states?
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3. List all the slave states:
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4. What do you notice concerning the location of the majority of the slave states?
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5. List the territories:
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6. Why was it important to include the territories on the map?
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7. How many miles of canals were in use in the United States in 1858? ____________________
8. What is a canal? ______________________________________________________________
9. How many miles of railroad tracks crisscrossed the country? __________________________
10. What 2 trails used to travel west left from St. Louis Missouri?
1. _______________________
2.________________________
11. What was the pony express?
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12. How long was the pony express used? _________________________________
13. What could have caused the Pony Express to stop running?
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14. If the Transcontinental Railroad was 11 years away what year does that mean the
Transcontinental Railroad was completed? _________________________________
Abe Lincoln Goes to Washington
By: Cheryl Harness
Activities created by Angela Orr, Graduate Assistant
Directions: Using the map The United States in the Beginning of the Civil War 1861 answer the
following questions.
1. List the Northern/Union States:
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2. What are the differences from the map of 1858 between the Northern states and free
states?
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3. List the Southern/Confederate states and the date they seceded:
Southern/Confederate States
State
Date of secession
4. What states are missing from the previous map of slave states?
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5. What state seceded first? __________________________________________
6. What did it mean to be a border state? _______________________________
7. What area became a state in the Union when it refused to secede?
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8. How many states did the Lincolns cross in their trip from Springfield, IL to Washington D.C.?
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9.What was the capital of the Confederacy? ____________________________
10. Who was the President of the Confederacy? _________________________________
11. Why do you think the illustrator showed the sign above the map being torn apart?
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