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“Mapping the Civil War”
Georgia Performance Standards: (SS8H6b) – The student will state the importance of key events of the Civil War
to include Antietam, the Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, the Union blockade of Georgia’s coast,
Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign, Sherman’s March to the Sea, and Andersonville.
Materials Needed
• Blank outline map of U.S. and Georgia (c.1860)
• Textbook & Notes
• Color pencils (NO markers)
U.S. map
Objectives:
• Identify the geographic locations of the Confederate states (color grey), the Union states (color blue),
the border states (color red)
• Label the Confederate States, Union States, and the Border States (pen or black pencil)
• Label (*) the Confederate and Union capitals.
• Label each state (abbreviation) and the year that each Confederate state seceded from the Union.
• Label (•) the following battle sites: Ft. Sumter, Antietam, Gettysburg, and Chattanooga -- Include the
year of each battle!
• Label the Mississippi River and Atlantic Ocean.
• Label the Anaconda plan (draw a snake or ship barricade)
Georgia map
• Label the cities of Chattanooga, Dalton, Resaca, Marietta, Atlanta, Milledgeville, and Savannah
• Label (^) Kennesaw Mountain
• Label the battles of Chickamauga, Resaca, Kennesaw Mtn, Pickett's Mill, and Atlanta -- Include the
year of each battle!
• Use a black color pencil to a draw line indicating Sherman’s March to the Sea (include date/year for
starting point and date/year at end point)