Related pages :

Lincoln

Images and Cliparts :

• Civil War Clipart (classroomclipart.com)

  

• Over 1,000 Civil War Images, Photographs and Cartes de Visites
  
  

• The Civil War at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. -
  "Digitized images cover slavery and abolition, the weapons and leaders of the war, and the life and culture of the times." (Blue Web'n)
  
  
  
  

Maps :

• The Civil War at a Glance - MAPS (pueblo.gsa.gov)

Facts :

• The Civil War "is quite an impressive interactive infographic on the Civil War. It shows casualties, stories, and a whole lot more."
  (elibrosen.com)

• Fort Sumter: How Civil War Began With a Bloodless Battle (National Geographic)
  "On April 12th, 1861, 150 years ago today, the first battle of the US Civil War was fought at Ft. Sumter, in Charleston, South Carolina.
  Southern states had been seceding from the union for months, but the US still maintained coastal forts..."

  

• The Civil War - interactive timeline
  "An unfolding history of the major events of the Civil War since Lincoln's election using contemporaneous coverage from The Times' article and photo archives."
  (nytimes.com)

  

• Civil War: 150th Anniversary (history.com)

  

• The Gettysburg Address
  "is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and is one of the best-known speeches in United States history.
  It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the 
  Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy 
  at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg."
  (Wikipedia)

  
  
  
  Gettysburg Address - an animation - Lincoln's speech revisited.
  (vimeo.com)

• The Civil War Home Page (civil-war.net)
  A rticles, 1100 photos, battle maps, battle reports, 1860 census records, and Civil War links
  Timeline of Events Leading Up to The Civil War.

• Camp Life: Civil War Collections from Gettysburg (cr.nps.gov)
  "Step back in time, and try to imagine yourself a soldier in the Civil War.
  Where do you sleep? How do you pass the time? What personal items did you bring from home?
  Camp Life reveals the daily life of both Union and Confederate soldiers with an online exhibition of common everyday items. Learn what a "housewife" is, and why infantrymen were only issued half a tent..." (Surfing the Net with Kids)
  
  
• American History - PowerPoint Presentations (pppst.com)
  Explorers - Civil War - Government -
  Native Americans - Industrial/Immigration - Geography -
  Colonial Times - Great Depression - Patriotic Symbols -
  Revolutionary War - Civil Rights - Multicultural -
  Western Expansion - World Wars - Many More

• Civil War - LINKS (cybersleuth-kids.com)
  Battles - Biographies - Documents and Letters - Food - Maps - Medicine - Music - People - Pictures - State Resources -
  Timelines - Women

• The Civil War for Kids - timeline - maps - graphs - leaders - flags - uniforms...
  - with activities : Fill in the Blank / Word Search / A Civil War Diary
  (lhric.org/pocantico)
  
  
  
  

• American Civil War (teach-nology.com) :
  - Clip Art, Images, Photos
  - Resource Materials
  - Sites For Background Information
  - Hands On Activities
  - Web Quests
  - Interactive Sites For Students
  - Work Sheets
  - Lesson Plans...

• The Civil War - a timeline (historyplace.com)
  
  

• The Time of the Lincolns
  "a rich site for middle and high-schoolers that explores not just the Civil War, but also women's rights, slavery, abolition, politics and the growth of the industrial economy."
  (Surfing the Net with Kids)
  
  
  
  

• Civil War Terms and People (quia.com)
  "Reviewing key people and terms of the civil war."

• Civil War Terms and People (quia.com)
  "Reviewing key people and terms of the civil war."

• CIVIL WAR SOLDIER VOCABULARY (score.rims.k12.ca.us)

Listening :

• THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861-1865 :
  LINCOLN'S GETTYSBURG ADDRESS November 19, 1863 - interactive exercises
  
  

INTERACTIVE exercises :

• THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861-1865 :
  LINCOLN'S GETTYSBURG ADDRESS November 19, 1863 - interactive exercises

• Civil War Vocabulary Quiz - Matching exercise

Exercises TO PRINT :

• The Civil War for Kids - timeline - maps - graphs - leaders - flags - uniforms...
  - with activities : Fill in the Blank / Word Search / A Civil War Diary (lhric.org/pocantico)
  
  
  
  

• Civil War Vocabulary Quiz - matching exercise
  
  

Lesson plans :

• The Civil War - Lesson plans and Activities
  Education World looks at the war that divided the nation and ultimately abolished slavery.
  (Education World)

  

Webquests :

• The American Civil War Perspectives WebQuest by Anthony Hazard - UPDATED
  "You are one of several diverse Americans during the Civil War..." 
  (questgarden.com)
  
  

Songs :

• Folks Songs about the American Civil War, 1861-1865 (nwfolk.com)

Films :

• GONE WITH THE WIND - with subtitles and a quiz mode - Difficulty: Easy
  (englishcentral.com)

  

   

  Gone with the Wind "is a 1939 American epic romance-drama film adapted from  Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel of the same name.
  It was produced by David O. Selznick and directed by Victor Fleming from a screenplay by Sidney Howard.
  The film, set in the Old South in and around the time of the American Civil War, stars Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, and  Hattie McDaniel.
  It tells a story of the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era from a white, Southern point of view."
  (Wikipedia)

• Civil War Movies and Videos (wildwestweb.net)

Videos :

• Snapshots of the American Civil War
  "This year marks 150 years since the Battle of Gettysburg, perhaps the most important - and certainly the bloodiest - battle of the American Civil War..."
  (BBC)

• Gettysburg Address - an animation - Lincoln's speech revisited.
  (vimeo.com)

  The Gettysburg Address "is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and is one of the best-known speeches in United States history.
  It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the 
  Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy 
  at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg."
  (Wikipedia)