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Ironclads of the Civil War Learning Activity
 
 
The Ironclads of the Civil War
A Part of My Civil War Weapons & Warfare Activity Page
 


The turning point of the Civil War Naval War

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One of the inventions of the time of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War was the iron ships.  Naval engineers of the 1860's were given the assignment of building ships that could withstand the cannonballs of artillery.  Two of these were the Merrimac and the Monitor.  Both would end up in battle and history was made.  Present-day modern ships are the result of the invention of the iron ship in the 1860's.

Your job on this web activity is to complete the information form about "Ironclads" and do the final activity.  Have fun learning about the Ironclad ships and crews.  Click here to enter the Student Job Description.

   The Merrimack or the C.S.S. Virginia

 Battle of the Merrimac and the Monitor
The Interactive "Monitor" Story

The U.S.S. Monitor Center from the Mariner's Museum

 
 

Port Columbus National Civil War Naval Museum

 

John Ericsson Resource

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