Download Who They Were Civil War 150 Webquest

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Who They Were
Civil War 150 Webquest
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1. How many Americans fought in the Civil War?
2. What was the most common job that most soldiers had before the Civil War?
3. What was the average age, height, and weight of a soldier in the Civil War?
4. About how many African Americans fought for the Union Army?
5. What percent of the Union Army was made up of immigrants or second
generation Americans?
6. About how many women do we know secretly fought in the Civil War?
7. About how many Native Americans fought in the Civil War?
8. What was the average pay per month for a white Union soldier?
9. What was the average pay per month for a black Union soldier?
10. Why do you think there was a pay difference between white and black
soldiers in the Union Army?
11. What was the average pay per month for a Confederate soldier in 1861?
12. Why do you think wages went up for Confederate soldiers by 1864?
13. Click on Food: What types of foods were Union soldiers rationed?
14. What types of foods were Confederate soldiers rationed?
15. Click on Supplies: About how many pounds of supplies did the average
soldier have to carry with him?
16. Click on Army: What were the three main units in both in the Union and
Confederate Armies?
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WEAPONS OF WAR
Civil War 150 Webquest
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Click on Weapons of War
Click on Napoleon Field Gun:
1. List two pros of the Napoleon Field Gun.
2. List two cons of the Napoleon Field Gun.
3. List one new interesting fact about the Napoleon Field Gun.
Click on the Minie Ball:
4. What weapon caused 90% of all causalities during the Civil War?
5. What percent of causalities were caused by artillery fire?
6. What percent of causalities were caused by swords/bayonets?
7. List two pros of the Minie ball.
8. List one con of the Minie ball.
9. List one new interesting fact about the Minie ball.
Click on the Spencer Repeating Rifle
10. List two pros of the Spencer Repeating Rifle.
11. List two cons of the Spencer Repeating Rifle.
12. List one new interesting fact about the Spencer Repeating Rifle.
Click on the Railroads
13. List two pros of the Railroads.
14. List two cons of the Railroads.
15. Click on view Tech Specs: What side (Union or Confederate) had more
railroad tracks and equipment?
Click on the Telegraph
16. List two pros of the Telegraph.
17. List two cons of the Telegraph.
18. Click on view Tech Specs: What side (Union or Confederate) had more
telegraph lines?
19. How do you think railroads and telegraphs changed warfare?
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HOW THEY DIED
Civil War 150 Webquest
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Click on HOW THEY DIED?
1. How many Americans died in the Civil War?
2. In the Civil War 2% of America’s population died, about how many
Americans would be killed if 2% of population died today?
3. What were your odds of surviving a wound in the Civil War?
4. How many soldiers died after an amputation during the Civil War?
5. What amputation had the highest death rate?
6. How many soldiers died in prison camps?
7. Of the soldiers that died in the Civil War, what percent died from disease?
8. What disease was the number one killer during the Civil War?
9. How many soldiers died from Typhoid fever?
10. How did the U.S. Sanitation Commission help the Union cause?
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FIVE DEADLIEST BATTLES
Civil War 150 Webquest
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Click on FIVE DEADLIEST BATTLES
Click on Chancellorsville:
1. What was the size of the Confederate Army?
2. What were the total Confederate Causalities?
3. What was the size of the Union Army?
4. What were the total Union Causalities?
5. List one new interesting fact about the Battle of Chancellorsville.
Click on Gettysburg:
6. What was the size of the Confederate Army?
7. What were the total Confederate Causalities?
8. What was the size of the Union Army?
9. What were the total Union Causalities?
10. List one new interesting fact about the Battle of Gettysburg.
Click on Chickamauga:
11. What was the size of the Confederate Army?
12. What were the total Confederate Causalities?
13. What was the size of the Union Army?
14. What were the total Union Causalities?
15. List one new interesting fact about the Battle of Chickamauge.
Click on The Wilderness:
16. What was the size of the Confederate Army?
17. What were the total Confederate Causalities?
18. What was the size of the Union Army?
19. What were the total Union Causalities?
20. List one new interesting fact about the Battle of the Wilderness.
Click on the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse:
21. What was the size of the Confederate Army?
22. What were the total Confederate Causalities?
23. What was the size of the Union Army?
24. What were the total Union Causalities?
25. List one new interesting fact about the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse.
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PAYING FOR THE WAR
Civil War 150 Webquest
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Click on PAYING FOR THE WAR
1. What was the total cost of the Civil War in the 1860s?
2. What would the cost of the Civil War be in today’s money?
3. What happened to the value of the U.S. dollar from 1861 to 1864?
4. What happened to the value of the Confederate dollar throughout the course
of the war?
5. Why do you think the U.S. dollar started going up in value in 1864?
6. What happens to the prices of basic food items in the Confederacy during the
Civil War?
WEST POINT WARRIORS
Click on West Point Warriors at the top of the webpage
7. How many West Point Graduates fought in the Civil War?
8. How many West Point Graduates served as generals?
9. How old was George B. McClellan when he first attended college at West
Point?
10. In how many major battles did West Pointers fight against one another?
11. How many West Pointers died during the Civil War?
12. How does one become the “Goat” at West Point?