Download Civil War The North Wins

• Learning Goals:
1. Explain the significance of
the battles of Gettysburg
and Vicksburg.
2. Analyze why the
Confederacy fell.
The picture is of the Gettysburg, PA battlefield.
• Journal Question:
You have been chosen by the
post office to design a series of
postage stamps on the Civil
War. Choose three topics on the
Civil War and describe your
postage stamps. You may draw
them for extra credit.
•1. The Confederates lost
“Stonewall” Jackson when he
was accidentally killed at the
Battle of Chancellorsville by
being shot by his own men.
2. The armies
of the Union
and the
Confederacy
met at
Gettysburg. It
was one of the
major turning
points of the
war.
3. The
Battle of
Gettysburg
crushed
Lee’s hopes
for an
invasion
and victory
in the
North.
A view from Little
Round Top.
The Slaughter Pen
4. The Siege at Vicksburg by Ulysses S.
Grant helped the Union gain complete
control over the Mississippi River and
split the Confederacy in half.
5. William Tecumseh Sherman waged
a “total war” on the South. He
destroyed the South’s will and ability to fight
and tore into the heart of the Confederacy.
•6. William
Tecumseh
Sherman’s
conquest of
Atlanta
helped
Lincoln win
reelection
in 1864.
Atlanta on
fire!
• 7. The event that forced Lee to
surrender at Appomattox Court
House was when Richmond, VA fell
to Union forces.