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The Battle of Antietam

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Students discover the Battle of Antietam is the bloodiest war in American history. They realize that over 20,000 men lost their lives in a single day. Students will write newspaper articles to cover the front page.

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the confederacy, the united states civil war, unions

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7th - 12th
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Social Studies & History
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