1. Gas ration stamps being printed, Bureau of Engraving & Printing Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress Zoom In Inquiry

2. What does primary source analysis tell us about history? Determine what you see and what questions you might ask to get the big picture.

3. Describe the colors and shapes you see. Predict the rest of the picture might look like. Identify what in this picture makes you think that.

4. Describe the new details that confirm or change your prediction. List a possible where, who, when, and what of this picture. Identify what in this picture makes you think that.

5. Make a hypothesis about what this represents. Use details from the picture to support your guess.

6. Why do you think this image was created?

7. What questions does this leave you with?

8. The first encounter of Iron-Clads. Terrific engagement between the "Monitor" and "Merrimac"... March 9th 1862 (c1891) Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

9. Evaluate the importance this battle might have had on a soldier…. on a general… on a president.

10. The first encounter of Iron- Clads. Terrific engagement between the "Monitor" and "Merrimac"... March 9th 1862 Created around 1891 by the Calvert Lithographing Company. Compare the date of the event and the date this lithograph was created, is this painting a primary source to a study of the Civil War?

11. Understanding the Big Picture How do wartime technological innovations benefit society?

12. Examine these primary sources to determine if they represent technological innovations as a result of the Civil War. Have these innovations benefited society? Full page of text and 3 illustrations:... Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Rebel defences [sic] of Mobile : shewing [sic] Union attack April 3rd- 9th 1865 on Spanish Fort., American Memory Map Collections, Library of Congress The Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916. George B. McClellan to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, June 19, 1862 (Telegram regarding military affairs)