Map Assignments

Map 49

1.  Using different colors shade the following areas:

            a.  free states

            b.  slave states loyal to the Union

            c.  states that seceded from the Union before April 14^th, 1861

            d.  states that seceded from the Union after April 14^th, 1861

2.  Create a key in the box

3.  What states were part of the Confederate states of America before April 14^th, 1861.

      What states were known as border states?

4.  Why did both the Union and Confederate states try to gain loyalty of the border states?

Map 50

Directions:  Answer the following questions then label them on the map.

A.

1. The Battle of _______ ________ in July 1861 was the first battle to take place in Virginia.
2. The Confederate attack on Fort ______ were the first shots fired of the war.
3. General Grant captured Fort ________ on the Tennessee River and Fort _________on the Cumberland River in February 1862.
4. Generals Johnston and Beauregard tried to defeat Grant near _____________, a country meeting house in Tennessee.
5. __________, the Capital of the Confederacy, fell to Union troops in April 1865.
6. On September 17, 1862, McClellan and Lee clashed at __________, marking one of the bloodiest days in the war.
7. At the Battle of ________________, General Meade forced Confederate troops to retreat from Pennsylvania.
8. After s six week siege, the city of _______surrendered to Grants army.
9. General Sherman destroyed most of the city of _________, Georgia, as part of the strategy of “total war.”
10. General Lee surrendered to General Grant at _____________ ________ on April 9^th, 1865.

2. Use a solid line to show Scott’s Anaconda plan divided the Confederacy into three major theatres of war.  Use a dotted line to show the North’s naval blockade.

3. Create a key in the box.
4. Explain the strategy of Scott’s Anaconda Plan and how the naval blockade affected the South.

Map 51

Label the following on the map:

Richmond                   Washington, D.C.

Maryland                     Pennsylvania

West Virginia              Virginia

James River                 York River

Potomac River                        Chesapeake Bay

Label the following battle sites.  Use one color for a Union victory, one color for a Confederate victory.

Seven Days’ Battle

Antietam

Chancellorsville

Bull Run

Harpers Ferry

Fredericksburg

Gettysburg

Use matching colors to show the following routes of the Union and Confederate armies.

            Lee’s advance to Antietam

            McClellan’s attack on Lee at Antietam

            Lee’s attack on Gettysburg

            Meade’s defense of Gettysburg

Create a key in the blank box.

What effect did Geography have on the outcome of the Battle of Gettysburg?