Social Studies Activity: The Civil War Virtual Tour

Welcome to our tour of some of the specific battles of the Civil War.  As you go on your tour today, you will be able to do the following:
  • Understand what battle during the civil war looked like
  • Understand the impact of the Gettysburg address
  • Know what the turning point of the war was
Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.7
Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.10
By the end of grade 8, read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Virtual Tour
As you go on this tour, you will be watching different videos and reading different articles of battles on the American Civil War.  After each video or article there are a series of questions that you will need to answer.  Please copy questions to a separate document and answer.  Upload the final product to Schoology when you are done.   
Confederate vs. Union Soldiers
  1. Where did the majority of the soldiers come from?
  2. What was the Union soldiers fighting for?
  3. What was the Confederate soldier fighting for?
General Howell Recounts Civil War Experience

  1. Who was the president of the Confederate states?
  2. Where was he when he found out they lost St. Petersburg?
The Gettysburg Address
  1. What was the central meaning behind the address?  What was the outcome of this war supposed to be?
  2. "Four score and Seven years ago" is how long?
The Battle of Gettysburg


  1. Who was the general of the southern forces?
  2. What happens on day 1?
  3. What happens on day 2?
  4. What happens on day 3?
  5. How long was it after the battle when President Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg? 
Map of Gettysburg
Answer the following questions by searching the map.
  1. How many soldiers were posted at Cemetery Ridge?
  2. What happened at the Soldier's National Cemetery?
  3. Culp's Hill was an allied location for who?

View Gettysburg Battlefield in a larger map
Congratulations! You have finished the Virtual Tour!  Enjoy this final clip for fun!