Civil War Battle Scavenger Hunt

The next unit we learned about in the Civil War were the major battles that shaped the future of the war. The essential question from class was, "Who were the ultimate victor In each of the following theaters; East, West, and Naval?" In order to learn about each of these battles, each person from class learned about one battle on their own and created a google doc that gave a summary of the battle which included information such as the theater, the victor, and why the victor won, as well as a hint to where the next QR code could be found. Then each person created a QR code that linked classmates to their Google doc so classmates could get to it. To start off the scavenger hunt,we put up these QR codes around the school, and then everyone went looking for them

The second essential question  from class was,"Who was the ultimate victor" and, "Who won each of the theaters? The first theater we are going to look over is the Naval theater. The Union dominated the Confederacy in the Naval theater, and the reason for this was because the Union had a much larger navy than the Confederacy, and they were able to produce more ships as they had more ports and factories than the Confederacy. The Union forces that had about 16,000 men, while the Confederacy had about 3,000 men, and this huge difference in power caused the Union to dominate in the Naval theater.  In the Eastern theaters, the Confederacy was primarily dominant because they were able to constantly ambush the Union and, a majority of the time, had them outnumbered. An example of this Confederate domination in the Eastern theater was at the second battle of Bull Run when the Confederacy only lost about 8,350 while the Union lost about 13,830 troops;a significant difference. The last theater we learned about was the Western theater, which was owned dominated by the Union because they always outnumbered the Confederates. An example of this Western domination by the Union is in the battle of Vicksburg and the Chattanooga Campaign. Some commonalities I noticed that decided the victor was that the victor usually had a much larger fighting force and had less casualties, and that when the tides were even, the victor had a strategy or advantage to be used against the other.  Overall, the Union was primarily dominant in the Civil War, as they were victorious in 2 out of 3 theaters