'The 'Virginia Studies' videos were terrific – at grade level – and nicely targeted to what our students need to know.

Each video includes a question at the end that will require a student to demonstrate historical and analytical analysis. In this video series, the VMHC animates primary source documents to produce a video that is appropriate for a K-12 audience and even more appropriate for students preparing for the Virginia Studies SOL.

This video is part of the “Virginia Studies” series which is based on the Virginia Department of Education's Standards of Learning (SOL). The next day the Union's first ironclad-the USS Monitor-arrived and fought the Virginia to a draw, ensuring the safety of the Union blockade fleet. Most accounts of the American Civil War focus on the various battles. This battle revolutionized naval warfare by proving that wooden vessels were obsolete against ironclads. BLACK MEN IN NAVY BLUE during the Civil War & By Joseph P. On March 8, 1862, the world's first ironclad ship, CSS Virginia, destroyed two wooden-hulled U.S. This video describes the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack.

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