1. Think about it…
Take 5 minutes to work on the paper on your desk. Don’t use your notes!!!

2. What do these pictures have in common? How are they different?
When you are finished…
What do these pictures have in common? How are they different?

3. What did African Americans do during the Civil War?
Today’s Question:
What did African Americans do during the Civil War?

4. Today’s Activities: Analyze picture Reading
Become reporters and soldiers
Letter from an African American soldier
5 minute break
JEOPARDY!!

10. Vocab Words:
Emancipation: setting a person or group of people free Flocked: a group of people coming to a place Dignity: being worthy of honor or respect Prejudice: feeling hostile or negative about a group of people Dispelled: to make something disappear Brigade: a small section of the army Commandeering: taking control of; capturing

12. Robert Smalls

13. 54th Massachusetts Regiment

16. Letter from an African American soldier
Assignment: Imagine you are an African American living during the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln has just issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves and inviting African Americans to join the Union army. Full of excitement, you decide to enlist. Write a letter back home to your family, describing your experiences in the Union army.

18. Which region?

19. Which region?

20. Which region?

21. Which region?

23. Located along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico

24. Located west of the Appalachian Mountains and east of the Great Plains

25. Located west of the Interior Lowlands and east of the Rocky Mountains Flat lands that gradually increase in elevation westward; grasslands

26. Contains the Continental Divide, which changes the directional flow of rivers

27. Located west of the Rocky Mountains and east of the Sierra Nevadas and the Cascades