Name(s):
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Civil War and
Reconstruction Power Point Project
Objective: To demonstrate your knowledge of the
events of the Civil War and Reconstruction and the causes and effects of the
Civil War and Reconstruction through the creation of a power point project.
Timeframe: You will have FIVE full periods in the library to FULLY COMPLETE this project. Therefore you must use all your time
wisely and not goof off.
Partners: You will pick ONE
other person to work with on the project.
Internet: You will ONLY
visit the sites listed on these instructions. If you go elsewhere, you will
receive a ZERO for your grade and be
taken off the computer and forced to do hard labor (book work). If you work
with someone who does not have permission to be on the computer, ONLY you may use the computer, they
will have to help from afar.
Pictures and sounds: You will be graded on your inclusion of pictures, each slide will tell you how many you should
include. Sounds are OPTIONAL. Do not
sacrifice content for cool-looking slides.
Causes of the Civil War
Power Point
First Slide: Causes of the Civil War
List the Causes of
the Civil War (include at least four)
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761567354/Civil_War_American.html
Second Slide: North v South
Write a comparison
description between the North and the South.
Include economic
systems, way of life and people.
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761567354/Civil_War_American.html
Third Slide: Plantations
Cut and paste 2
pictures that show the plantation system
Explain what is
happening in the picture
Fourth Slide: Abolitionists
List four famous
abolitionists and include pictures of at least two
http://education.ucdavis.edu/NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad/Abolit.htm
http://www.albany.edu/~cm8121/abolitionists/abolitionists_webquest.html#tasks
Fifth Slide: Slave Life
Use the index and find one or two
pictures that show the conditions of slave life. Transfer them to your own
document. Write a heading for each picture.
http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/scripts/sia/gallery.cgi
Events of the Civil War
Power Point
Sixth slide: The
Civil War
Year-Year (Start and Finish)
http://americancivilwar.com/tl/timeline.html
One picture or clip art (minimum, two or three pictures earns
better grade)
Seventh slide:
Map of
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/history/marshall/military/civil_war_usa/CSA.documents/secede.gif
Cut and paste map onto slide
Eighth slide: Start of the Civil War
Put one picture or clip art
Answer the
following questions on this slide using the map from Slide 7 or the Web sites
provided. Put the questions and answers
on the slide.
1. What state was
the first to secede?
http://americancivilwar.com/documents/ordinance_secession.html
2. How many states
total seceded?
3. What four
Ninth slide: Firing on
Include a picture of the firing on
On your slide
include the following
Date of first shots:
Who surrendered (north or south?):
http://www.civilwarhome.com/ftsumter.htm
Tenth slide:
Include a picture or battle map of the
On your slide
include the following:
Date battle began:
Who won the battle (north or south?):
How many total people died? (north and south):
http://www.civilwarhome.com/gettyscampaign.htm
Eleventh slide:
Include a picture of the
On your slide
include the following:
Date of speech:
Purpose of speech:
http://www.civilwarhome.com/lincolngettysburg.htm;
http://americancivilwar.com/north/lincoln.html
Twelfth Slide: Emancipation Proclamation
Include a picture of the Emancipation
Proclamation
On your slide
include the following:
Date of speech:
Purpose of speech:
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/index.html
Thirteenth Slide: End of the Civil War
Include a picture of
On your slide
include the following:
Where did the surrender take place?:
When was the surrender?:
Who surrendered to who?:
http://americancivilwar.com/appo.html
Reconstruction Power Point
Fourteenth slide: Reconstruction
Year-Year (Start and Finish)
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h69.html
Add one picture or clip art
Fifteenth slide: Emancipation
Thomas
Nast’s depiction (illustration) of emancipation at
the end of the Civil War.
What two things does Nast’s
depiction contrast?
Copy the picture and write answer to
question over it.
http://cartoons.osu.edu/nast/emancipation.htm
Sixteenth slide: Black Codes
Complete the following: In 1865, ____________ created Black Codes to
_____________and _____________ the __________ of ex-slaves. Codes controlled
almost _____ aspects of life and __________ African Americans from the
_________
that had been _______. Besides controlling ex-slaves, Black Codes
also insured that whites would have the __________________they needed.
http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/blackcodes/a/blackcodes1865.htm
Seventeenth slide: Freedmen’s
Bureau
What is the longer name for the Freedmen’s
Bureau?
Years of existence?
From ________ to __________
What was the bureau’s chief focus?
http://afroamhistory.about.com/cs/reconstruction/a/freedmensbureau.htm
Eighteenth slide: Freedmen’s Bureau
The Bureau’s chief success was in what
area?
http://afroamhistory.about.com/cs/reconstruction/a/freedmensbureau.htm
Include a picture of a Freedmen’s Bureau
school.
http://www.picturehistory.com/find/p/11353/mcms.html
Nineteenth slide:
Picture of
http://www.picturehistory.com/find/c/16/mcms.html
What were
What percentage of each state’s voters had
to participate in the oath of loyalty?
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h126.html
Twentieth slide: Johnson’s Plan for
Reconstruction
Picture of Johnson
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/aj17.html
Complete the following: Offered pardons to
all except Confederate ___________ . New southern state governments had to
____________ _____________ before being
readmitted.
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h126.html
Twenty-First slide: Radical Reconstruction
Radical Republican Reconstruction was
motivated by what three factors?
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h126.html
Twenty-Second slide: Radical Reconstruction
In the First Reconstruction Act, the
Radical Republicans divided the secessionist states into what?
http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/reconstruction/section3.rhtml
Twenty-Third Slide:
Reconstruction Amendments
What were the three amendments,
briefly describe what each said and include a picture or clip art
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h926.html
