DIRECTIONS: It’s party time! You now have the opportunity to throw the biggest party of the year and to invite some of your favorite “Road to Civil War” and “Civil War” friends. Follow the directions below to hold your very own “Civil War Dinner Party”!

1. Select EIGHT individuals associated with the Civil War to attend your party from the

list.

Road To Civil War People: 1. William Lloyd Garrison 2. Fredrick Douglas 3. Harriett Tubman 4. Senator Henry Clay 5. Senator John C. Calhoun 6. Senator Daniel Webster 7. Representative David Wilmont 8. Senator Lewis Cass 9. President Zack Taylor 10. Senator William Seward 11. President Millard Fillmore 12. President Franklin Pierce 13. Harriett Beecher Stow 14. Senator Steven Douglas 15. John Brown 16. Senator Charles Sumner 17. President James Buchanan 18. Dred Scott 19. Chief Justice Rodger B. Taney 20. President Abraham Lincoln 21. John Bell 22. John Breckinridge 23. President Jefferson Davis 24. General Pierre G. Beauegard 25. Major John Anderson *ask about others

Civil War People: 1. Wilmer McLean 2. General Robert E. Lee 3. General Winfield Scott 4. Matthew Brady 5. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton 6. General Irvine McDowell 7. General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson 8. Ambassador James Slidell 9. Captain Abner Doubleday 10. General U.S. Grant 11. General William T. Sherman 12. General Don Carlos Buell 13. General Albert Sydney Johnson 14. General Benjamin Prentiss 15. Admiral James Farragut 16. General John C. Pemberton 17. General George C. McClellan 18. General John Pope 19. General Ambrose Burnside 20. General Thomas Hooker 21. General A.P. Hill 22. General George Meade 23. General John Bell Hood 24. General James Longstreet 25. Colonel Joshua Chamberlain 26. Major George Pickett 27. General Daniel E. Sickles 28. General John Bell Hood 29. General Joseph E. Johnston *ask about others

2. You will want to get the word out that you are having a party by creating an invitation to send out to your guests informing them of the festivities. Your invitation must include times, dates, and other important information. Your invitation should be creative and should have at least one graphic on it.

3. Every good party has a theme. You will want to create a theme for your party such as “Peace”, “Reunion”, or “Blue and Gray”. The type of food served at the party is also very important. Describe the menu for your dinner in the form of a well written paragraph. You will also want to explain how the room will be for the dinner party will be decorated and explain why you choose that decor. You must also include the location of the party with an explanation of why you chose that particular location. Your theme, menu, and décor should be discussed in at least THREE paragraphs.

4. For your high quality party RSVP’s are a must in order to plan the best fiesta. Unfortunately, only FIVE of the EIGHT individuals invited will be able come to the party. The THREE that do not must RSVP back to you with a HISTORICAL reason why they cannot make attend the festivities. These RSVP’s should consist of at least TWO paragraphs including a short biography of the individual and a good HISTORICAL reason why they cannot attend.

5. You will want to discuss why you invited each of the FIVE guests that are attending the party. Using historical facts, you will want to discuss why you decided to invite that particular individual. This section of the project should consist of at least TWO paragraphs including a short biography and a good HISTORICAL reason for inviting them.

6. Assigned seats are a must at any good social event. You will want to draw a seating chart indicating where each individual will sit during dinner. You must explain in at least TWO paragraphs why you assigned those particular seats.

7. Finally it is time to eat the high quality food that has been prepared. During the dinner of course, your guests will be talking and interacting. You will need to write a summary of at least THREE interactions describing how your guests interacted during the meal based on real HISTORICAL relationships and personalities. Some good questions to answer for this part include: What was talked about? Who got along? Who did not? Why?

How should I display my high quality “Civil War Dinner Party” project?

There are three ways for you to display the information associated with your high quality dinner party project. Choose ONE of the ways from the list below:

1. Your work may be placed in a bound stack of neatly typed and clean paper.

2. Your work may be neatly typed and placed on a small sheet of poster board.

3. Your work may be displayed on a web site or in a PowerPoint presentation.

Where do I find information about these people?

There are many resources on the Internet and in the public library with “Civil War” biographies. Try the sites listed below and search for others.

http://www.multied.com/CivilWar/ http://www.civilwarhome.com/biograph.htm

http://webpages.marshall.edu/~hughes11/biographies.htm

Examples of each part of the project are listed below. The project below is based on a “Cold War Dinner Party”.

1. Select EIGHT individuals associated with the Cold War to attend your party.

1. John F. Kennedy 2. Curtis LeMay 3. Fidel Castro 4. Winston Churchill

5. Mikhail Gorbachev 6. Nikita Khrushchev 7. Margaret Thatcher 8. Ronald Reagan

2. Create a high quality invitation like the one below.

(Front of Invitation) (Inside of Invitation)

3. You want to create a high quality theme, menu, and décor for your party like the

example given below.

Theme:

The theme for my spectacular Cold War dinner party is “On the Eve of Destruction, or Détente?” All the most influential Cold War personalities will be there. It is an event that has been anticipated for over 50 years and can not be missed by anyone who is anyone. The party will include individuals from not only the NATO Powers, but also all your favorite Warsaw Pact faces. It is hoped that some good eats, some good talk, and some good old fashion diplomacy will serve to thaw out the Cold War.

Menu:

The menu for my spectacular Cold War dinner party consists of some delightful dishes from around the polarized globe. In honor of our red guests, a nice vat of caviar and a large bowl of borsht will be served as an appetizer. As a main course an all American dish will be served to our guests. They will be treated to a plump juicy Texas porterhouse steak severed with a slue of McDonald’s greasy French fries on the side. For desert our guests will have the choice of either apple pie or a fine Siberian ice cream treat. Guests will have the choice of either Coca Cola or Russian Spring water to wash done these delicious entries.

Theme, Menu, and Décor continued

Décor:

My party will be held in the Folda Gap meeting hall and will feature many of the finest decorations to bring out the atmosphere for our guests. The Folda Gap is of course the place in West Germany were the NATO powers expected the Soviet invasion. Our dinning room will be ringed in barbed wire with guard towers located in each corner. Each guard tower will be complete with a flood light and a machine gun nest. Guests will be asked to sign in at Checkpoint Charlie by showing their papers, before crossing a freshly spray painted concrete wall into the dinning area. As a final touch, the dinning table will be covered with an Iron Curtain to ensure the desired dinning effect.

The THREE guests that can not attend must send you an RSVP. Below you will find an example of how they might send you their regrets.

Dear Sir,

(Historical reason for not attending)

Thank you for inviting me to your high quality Cold War dinner party. I regret to inform you that I will not be able to attend the festivities. Currently I am conducting an economic change within the Soviet Union known as Perestroika. I am trying to reconstruct the struggling communist economy within my country by opening up some new markets for our citizens. I hope that such a policy that offers Soviets new freedoms will also bring the Soviet Union closer to the west and hopefully help us achieve a greater understanding and a better relationship with the United States.

(Biography)

For those who do not know, I was born on a collective farm in 1931. While I was in college I joined the Communist and after I graduated was given a job within the party. After several years I was able to receive several promotions and soon found myself a member of the Communist Party Central Committee, a very prestigious job within the Soviet Union. In 1985, I was appointed the leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Premier Chernenko. As premier I introduced striking economic reforms within Russia that encouraged private ownership and other freedoms. As leader of the USSR, I also made steps to improve our relationship with the United States and met with President Reagan several times. While I was premier, my nation’s hold on the East block slowly eroded and I watch communism fall in our satellite states. Then in 1991, to spite my efforts, I watched the Soviet Union fall apart and die. After the end of the Cold War, I now live in San Francisco and spend my time lecturing in the United States.

Sincerely,

Mikhail Gorbachev

Why did you invite those five people? Here is one example of how to complete this section.

John F. Kennedy

(Biography)

John F. Kennedy was born in 1917 to a prominent Massachusetts family. Kennedy attended Harvard University and joined the navy after graduating in 1940. During World War II, Kennedy commanded a small attack boat named PT 109 in the south Pacific. PT 109 was sunk by a Japanese ship and Kennedy was later rescued on a deserted island but suffered a back injury. After the war JFK was elected to the House of Representatives in 1946. Kennedy served admirable in the House and was later elected to the Senate in 1952. In 1960, Kennedy was elected President of the United States in a close election defeating Richard Nixon. During his presidency, Kennedy was faced with many Cold War problems especially concerning the island of Cuba. JFK also tried to advance Civil Rights and many social programs during his administration. Sadly, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963.

(Historical reason for the invitation)

I invited President Kennedy to my Cold War dinner party because I feel that he did a fine job during the Cuban Missile Crisis. During the missile crisis, the USSR tried to place nuclear missile ninety miles off the coast of the USA on the island of Cuba. This action brought the world as close to all out nuclear war and ultimate destruction as it had ever been. Kennedy needed to find a peaceful solution to the crisis. Many of his advisors told him that war was the only answer. Kennedy knew that he had to get the missiles out of Cuba and not back down to the Soviet threat. At the same time, Kennedy knew that war would end civilization. Kennedy came up with a plan known as the “Quarantine” of Cuba; that got the missiles out of Cuba peacefully. His decisions avoided nuclear war and the destruction of all man kind.

Your seating chart might look something like this!

The following is one example of how your guests might interact using historical facts.

Kennedy to Khrushchev:

Mr. Khrushchev can you please pass the borsht?

Khrushchev to Kennedy:

Sure Mr. President! We have borsht coming off the assembly lines like our missiles!

Kennedy to Khrushchev:

Yes Mr. Premier. You must understand that we cannot allow you to place nuclear missiles in Cuba.

Khrushchev to Kennedy:

You must be mistaken Mr. President. The Soviet Union does not have missiles in Cuba.

Kennedy to Khrushchev:

We have seen the pictures. We are prepared to wait all day for the truth. Do you have missiles in Cuba?

Khrushchev to Kennedy:

(Pounding his shoe on the table) We will bury you! We will bury you!

LeMay to Kennedy:

Just give me the order sir and Strategic Air Commend (SAC) will solve the problem for you with authority!

Too be continued . . .