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Standard 3-4.5

3-4.5 Explain how the destruction caused by the Civil War affected the economy and daily lives of South Carolinians, including the scarcity of food, clothing, and living essentials and the continuing racial tensions.

Grade(s): 3

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2011

Title:
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Heritage
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Heritage

Video

This reenactment is based on excerpts from Emma LeConte’s diary. Emma, then seventeen years old, kept a diary for several months in 1865 chronicling the approach, occupation and burning of the city of...