Download Civil War: Battle of Antietam Video Webquest

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Civil War: Battle of Antietam Video Webquest
Go to the following website:
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/antietam/maps/antietam-animated-map.html
Click on Launch Animated Map
Answer the following questions:
Part 1: Introduction
1. After a string of victories, where does Robert E. Lee take the Confederate army for
the first time?
2. What state was invaded by the Confederate army?
3. What information did the Union commander George B. McClellan have that made
him feel confident about moving his army after Robert E. Lee?
Part 2: Opening Action
4. What is the name of the creek that flows by the city of Sharpsburg?
5. What month was the Battle of Antietam?
6. What was it like for the Union and Confederate forces fighting in the corn field?
7. What mistakes does Union General Sumner make during the opening of the attack?
Part 3: Attack at the Sunken Road
8. What was the main difference between the Union soldiers and Confederate soldiers
during the fight at the Sunken Road?
9. How many regiments of Confederate forces fall back from the Sunken Road?
10. What did the area of the Sunken Road where 5,600 men were killed or wounded
become known as?
Part 4: Burnside’s Bridge
11. When does Union General Burnside finally receive the order to attack? What does
this allow Confederate General Robert E. Lee to do?
12. Why were the Confederate forces able to easily defend the bridge?
13. Was Union General Burnside able to get his forces across Antietam Creek?
Part 5. The Final Attack
14. What do some Confederate units start doing once it appears that General Burnside
will penetrate Lee’s right flank?
15. How does Confederate General A.P. Hill help Robert E. Lee?
16. What does Union General George B. McClellan’s lack of an attack on the second
day allow Robert E. Lee to do?
Part 6. Conclusion
17. Why do many historians argue that Antietam was a victory for the Union?
18. What does Lincoln do to McClellan just a few months after the Battle of Antietam?
19. About how many Americans were killed, wounded, and captured at Antietam?
20. What does Lincoln use the Union victory at Antietam to announce?