civil+war~RAP

Civil War~
 * Thesis:** How the women are burdened with so much work and responsibility while their husbands are fighting.
 * Topic:** Civil War


 * Focus:** Women's additional work and chores while husbands were at war.


 * Reason for choice:**

Need some "starters" to help you brainstorm a thesis? Give your thesis the thesis test
 * What's your point? (**[|**thesis**]**):** How the women are burdened with so much work and responsibilty while their husbands are at war.

What are four various secondary sources you have found before your research? [] What are two primary sources you have found to help your research? []

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 * What four reasons do you have that will back up your point?**

1 - farm life

2 - hospital-volunteer work

3 - food

4 -

~**Farm** (live stock & tending the crops) -The planter or landowner assigned each family a small tract of land to farm and provided food, shelter, clothing, and the necessary seeds and farm equipment. When the crop was harvested, the planter or landowner took the cotton to market and after deducting for the "furnish" (the cost of the items the tenant had been furnished during the year), gave half of the proceeds to the tenant. This arrangement became known as sharecropping. [] -Many women and children took to the fields in order to maintain family farms. Women had long performed farm labor, from cooking, washing and cleaning to taking part in the planting and harvesting of crops.Rural women often lived amidst great loneliness. Without even their husbands' company, these women labored on isolated farms. [] What can you conclude from these facts?
 * What is your first reason and three to five facts to support it?**

~**Hospitals** -older women were more likely to work in the hospital. by donating their time or needed items. younger women were more likely to travel to other towns or even states to help out at hospitals. women who had a husband, son, or brother fighting in the war were more likely to feel the need to contribute themselves. In addition, white women took on the traditionally male occupation of nursing during the Civil War, taking care of the Confederacy's wounded as best they could. Because many Georgia towns became battlefields during the war, local women often inadvertently became frontline nurses. Hospitals were set up anywhere—homes, churches, town halls, and streets. Other women left their homes to care for wounded troops on the front lines, seeing battle and its ravages firsthand. -They formed aid societies to provide soldiers with socks, undergarments, shirts, gloves, blankets, shoes, comforters, handkerchiefs, scarves, bandages, and food. In more isolated areas, women worked as individuals to send supplies to the soldiers. They also planned and attended bazaars, fairs, concerts, raffles, and dances to raise money for army supplies and even sponsored specific Confederate gunboats through fund-raising drives.
 * What is your second reason and three to five facts to support it?**
 * ~Volunteer Work**

What can you conclude from these facts?

~**Food** (slaughtering animals) -Had to provide troops with food as well as themselves
 * What is your third reason and three to five facts to support it?**

What can you conclude from these facts?


 * What is your fourth reason and three to five facts to support it?**

What can you conclude from these facts?


 * Based on your research, what conclusions would you make and how does your research connect to your life?**


 * Ideas on how you are going to present? Involve the class? Be exciting? Interesting? Wow? Huh? Ahhh?**


 * But the conflict also provided many women with new opportunities for public responsibility and leadership, and led them to consider a new identity for themselves
 * Northern reformers worried that the absence and death of bread-winning men would lead dependent women into poverty and vice.

[|**http://www.unctv.org/thecivilwarexperience/cooking1.html**]