“The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” -Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg address. We’ve all heard this one before-it’s from the Gettysburg address, a speech made during the civil war. That is exactly what I want to talk to you about, the civil war. More specifically I want to talk about what it meant, and what happened. I think it matters for you, a high school student, to see the sites of the battles and learn in a different way for once. The civil war bang bang trip will teach students to see things as they are, and keep in mind what hardships we must go through to get where we want. A student can learn these things by visiting civil war sites rich with history.
We will go in chronological order, our first destination is Fort Sumer, South Carolina.(Frank E. "Fort Sumter." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.) It was here that a major battle took place, …show more content…
Those reasons are exactly why it is first on the list. The battle field itself is truly breath taking. Within the simple hills not so long ago, happened a blood bath of historical heights. The actual history in the museum provides you with many facts, artifacts, and real life interaction with the history. There are plenty of visualization techniques used here to teach a student. Students can literally stand where history was made, for real where people fought and died for what they thought just. You can learn a lot more than what you just thought was a big war, where many of our own people died. It was a battle on the base of life, as the country knew it. Although the battle of Gettysburg was the most significant, we must take into consideration how long this war was and all of the costs we truly