Freedom's Wings: Corey's Underground Railroad Diary

 Unit 3 Page 1-50

Character Sketcher

Your job is to sketch one of the following characters:  Roland, Corey, Mingo, Aunt Queen, or Masser Hart. 

Discussion Director

Your job is to ask 5 questions, the answer to your questions, and then the p. and par.  Find were the answers are found if possible.  Ask good thinking questions!!!  Ask the following:

1 Cause/Effect

1 Setting

1 MCEOG

2 of your own "Thinking Questions"

Passage Picker

1 Descriptive

1 Simile

1 Historical

1 Problem/Solution

Word Wizard

Your job is to complete your role sheet for the following:

Forge  p. 16 line. 6

Underground Railroad  p. 21 par. 2

Conductors  p. 43 par. 3

Drinkin' gourd  p. 47 par. 2

Investigator

Your job of the investigator is to research relevant and important information that deals with the book your are reading.  Here are some questions to answer from this web site:  http://americancivilwar.com/tl/tl1861.html

1. When did Texas secede from the Union?  Name 2 other interesting facts that you found on this page about Texas during this time? 

2. What happen in April of 1861?  Describe your answer? 

3. The Monitor and Merrimac events happen in March of 1862.  What were the Monitor and Merrimac?  What event took place?

4. The Battle of Antietam was in September of 1862.  Pick out 2 facts about this battle and describe them? 

5. In April of 1865 the war was over.  Were did the signing of surrender take place at?  Who was the two generals there?   

Answers

1.  Texas seceded from the union in February of 1861.  With Texas's geographic location, it had close ties to the southern states slave-holding states.  These ties have been strengthen by association.  Texas was in a geographic location by it's self.  But Texas sided with the confederacy.  After slave-holding states around Texas had fallen, they had to give in to the North.  They were isolated from the other slave states, and were on their own.  This eventually made them turn to the Union. 

2.  This day is when the Battle of Fort Sumter took place.  On April 12, Confederate batteries opened fire on the fort, which was unable to reply effectively. At 2:30 pm, April 13, Major Anderson surrendered Fort Sumter, evacuating the garrison on the following day.  This fight marks the first battle of the Civil War.  The Confederate took the fort from the Union soldiers.

3.  The Monitor and Merrimac were ships in the Civil War.  These two ships are the first iron-clad ships to do battle.  Neither one of the ships sunk the other.  The battle was a draw because they could not sink each other.

4.  This battle proved to be the bloodiest day of the war; 2,108 Union soldiers were killed and 9,549 wounded -- 2,700 Confederates were killed and 9,029 wounded. The battle had no clear winner, but because General Lee withdrew to Virginia, McClellan was considered the victor.

5.  The two generals are Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant.  These two generals were at Appomattox Court House.  They signed the  April 9, 1865 they signed the surrender papers.