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Social Studies 8 – Civil War Internet Activity
Go to the following webpage and click on Biographies.
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/
Read the biography on Ulysses S. Grant and answer the following questions. USE COMPLETE
SENTENCES.
1. Where was Grant born?
2. What did Grant do before the Civil War?
3. Why was he given the name “Unconditional Surrender?”
4. Why did some disapprove of Grant after the battle of Shiloh?
5. What did Grant do after the Civil War?
6. Describe Grant’s terms as President of the United States.
Read the biography on George B. McClellan and answer the following questions. USE COMPLETE
SENTENCES.
1. Why was McClellan’s leadership style upsetting to President Lincoln?
2. Why was he so well liked by his troops?
3. What seemed to be McClellan’s major flaw as a military leader?
4. What did McClellan do after the war?
Read the biography on Robert E. Lee and answer the following questions. USE COMPLETE SENTENCES.
1. Where was Lee born?
2. Why did Lee turn down Lincoln’s invitation to command the Union army?
3. What did Lee consider to be the key to a Confederate victory in the Civil War?
4. Why did Lee begin to lose his reputation after Gettysburg?
5. What did Lee do after the Civil War?
Read the biography on T.J. Stonewall Jackson and answer the following questions. USE COMPLETE
SENTENCES.
1. Where was Jackson born?
2. Where did Jackson begin teaching in 1851?
3. What army did Jackson command at the beginning of the Civil War?
4. How did Stonewall Jackson die?