Table 4: Women in the Civil War: Worksheet

Author, Abolitionist, and Civil War Nurse Louisa May Alcott

Library of Congress

Student Name(s): ________________________________________

Date: ____________________________________________________


WOMEN IN THE CIVIL WAR

Instructions: Select a reader for your group OR everyone select one of the six biography sheets of Civil War Women and take turns reading aloud. After reading each biography, match each with its corresponding photograph. (There are clues in the photographs if you look carefully)
Then, match each woman with the item(s) that best matches her Civil War experience. Ask yourselves: “Which item might you have seen this woman carrying during the war?”
Record your answers below.

Civil War Woman	Matching Item(s)

Now, open the Answer Key and check your answers.

1.Which woman do you think was most courageous? Support your answer.
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2.Which woman do you feel achieved the most? Support your answer.
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Be sure to return everything back to the three original piles – biographies, photographs, items – so that the station is ready for the next group.