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Directions:
Write a well organized essay that includes an introduction, several paragraphs, and a conclusion.
Use evidence from the documents to support your response.
Include specific outside information.
Use black or dark blue ink to write your essay
Click here for an outline.
Historical Context: During the Civil War, each state took their own position as a Union or Confederate State. Although none of the military battles took place in New York, a Union state, New Yorkers reacted in their own way to the many phases of this conflict.
Task: Using information from the documents and your knowledge of social studies, answer the questions that follow each document for Part A. Your answers to the questions will help you write the Part B essay in which you will be asked to:
- Identify and discuss two differing viewpoints New Yorkers held about New York´s involvement in the Civil War.
- Discuss how women in New York might have played a role in the war.
- Discuss the role that New York African Americans played.
Be sure to include specific historical details. You must also include additional information from your knowledge of social studies.
Use the following five links to complete your essay. Part A:
New York 36th Regiment New York Senatorial Regiment
Draft Riots Women Afro-American Regiments
Resources: These hyperlinks will give you extra information that you might be interested in reviewing.
36th New York Regiment http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cwnyhs:@field(DOCID+@lit(a c03149))
New York Senatorial Regiment
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?cwnyhs:16:./temp/~ammem_ZwCy::
The Draft Riots
http://www.nyhistory.org/teachers/41.html
First Hand Account Draft Riots
http://www.nyhistory.org/teachers/jtorrey.html
New York State´s Civil War U.S. Colored Troops http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/nycdoc/html/usct01.html
Annie Erving, Union Nurse at Antietam http://library.morrisville.edu/local_history/sites/letters/annie.html
Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences, and Manuscripts http://library.morrisville.edu/local_history/sites/letters/
Women in the Civil War http://www.northnet.org/stlawrenceaauw/nurses.htm
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