Civil War and Reconstruction Day 5 Assignment

LAST Name

FIRST Name

Class Period

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What is the title of the newspaper article?

What major event is being described in the article?

Where did the event mentioned take place? What was its outcome?

Imagine you lived in 1865. How would you have reacted to the event described in the newspaper? Why?

What was the outcome of the Battle of Vicksburg AND how did it affect the war?

Many Texas ___________________________________________ worked on farms and became nurses, teachers, or shopkeepers during the Civil War.

• Women
• Cotton
• Irish
• Telegraph
• Enlisted

Texas farmers began growing more corn and wheat to help feed soldiers, instead of ________________________________________.

• Cotton
• Irish
• Telegraph
• Enlisted
• Reasons for exploration