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Standard 8.3.CC

8.3.CC

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

The Reconstruction Amendments, Part 1 | History In A Nutshell

Episode 1

Video

Grades: 4 8 9 10 11 12

The question of "the peculiar institution" known as slavery had been hotly debated long before the American Civil War. This video outlines the reasons the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S...

The Rollin Sisters | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 5

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 11

The Rollin Sisters are essentially silenced after Reconstruction, and are forced to move away from South Carolina due to the increasing violence by “Red Shirts”, and Ku Klux Klan members. In the fight...

The Rollin Sisters | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 4

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 11

The South Carolina Woman Suffrage Association was founded in Columbia in 1870, with Charlotte Rollin as the Chair. A charter is created and sent to Lucy Stone, one of the founders of the American...

The Rollin Sisters | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 3

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 11

During this period, there were many people, including African Americans, who felt the issue of women’s suffrage was much less important than civil rights for Blacks. In the 1868 Constitutional...

The Rollin Sisters | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 2

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 11

The Civil War brought an abrupt change to the Rollin Family, ending a period where, according to Frances Rollin, “free people of color were at the zenith of their prosperity”. The Rollin family’s...

The Rollin Sisters | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 1

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 11

Frances Rollin was propelled into the national spotlight with the Pilot Boy steamship incident, in Charleston, South Carolina, where the captain refused her service due to the color of her skin...

Roots of Racism – Thinking Like a Historian about Racism | Asynchronous Studio Lessons

Video

Grades: 8 12

Teachers in this lesson have students evaluate current events surrounding racial discrimination. Teachers lead students through why and how historians use a historical lens to discuss racial issues in...

Women's Suffrage Movement Photo Gallery | History In A Nutshell

Photo

Grades: 4 5 8 11 Higher Education

This photo gallery includes the following: The 19th Amendment In the beginning, the Abolition and Women's Suffrage Movements were intertwined Frederick Douglass - A famous proponent of Women's...

The Grimké Sisters Through The Civil War

Episode 2

Video

Grades: 5 8 11 Higher Education Professional Development

The Grimké sisters ran afoul of the Quakers as they embraced abolition and engaged in anti-slavery activities without permission. Angelina Grimké wrote a letter to abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison...

The Grimké Sisters Through The Civil War

Episode 1

Video

Grades: 5 8 11 Higher Education Professional Development

Sarah and Angelina Grimké worked tirelessly for both abolition, and women’s suffrage. The Grimké sisters were the first to say, in print, that women deserved to live alongside men with an equal...

Women's Suffrage Movement, Part 1 | History In A Nutshell

Episode 1

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 11

The question of women's suffrage in the U.S. had been debated long before the movement's humble beginnings at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848. Part 1 of this edition on the Women's Suffrage...

A PBL About South Carolina’s Reconstruction Constitutions

Lesson

Grades: 8

Students will examine Reconstruction from a legislative point of view and a social point of view using guiding questions and activities to examine the Reconstruction Constitutions of 1865, 1868, and...

Reflections of Columbia, Part 2

Episode 2

Video

Grades: 4 8

In 1860, roughly 60% of the population in Columbia were slaves. 60% of the gross economic capital in South Carolina was in human property. With the growing popularity of the Republican Party, and...

Between The Waters, Part 4

Video

Grades: 4 8

The area of Georgetown went from one of the wealthiest districts prior to the Civil War, to one of the poorest. Lee Brockington, senior interpreter at Hobcaw Barony, discusses the impact of the ending...

The Emancipation Proclamation | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 42

Photo

Grades: 4 8

The Emancipation Proclamation has often been misunderstood, even by those who admire it. Abraham Lincoln disliked the system of slavery, but he made it clear from the beginning that the war effort was...

South Carolina Topsey in a Fix | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 22

Photo

Grades: 4 8

The cartoon "South Carolina Topsey in a Fix," one of "Strong's Dime Caricatures," was printed by W.T. Strong in 1861. Topsey has cut one of the stars out of the American flag. Courtesy of the South...

A Coffle of Slaves | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 2

Photo

Grades: 4 8

A coffle of slaves is being marched through town by an overseer. From "Slavery in South Carolina," 1862. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

Sarah Grimké | Periscope

Episode 1

Photo

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Abolitionist Sarah Grimké was born into a wealthy slaveholding Charleston family in 1792. After experiencing the injustices of slavery firsthand, she became a noted speaker for the antislavery...

Brooks-Sumner Affair | Palmetto Heritage

Video

Grades: 4 8

In 1857 during the heated debate on Kansas in the Senate, Charles Sumner delivered a two-day speech entitled "The Crime Against Kansas," which contained an insulting denunciation of Senator Andrew...

Denmark Vesey | Palmetto Heritage

Video

Grades: 4 8

The program begins with Vesey discussing the condition of slavery with an acquaintance who is a slave. Later, at a meeting, details of a plot are worked out with co-conspirators. Some are concerned...

Tradition: The Trail of Tears Singing | Periscope

Episode 12

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Tradition: The Trail of Tears Singing Every year since 1968, the Snowbird Cherokee have held a ceremony called "The Trail of Tears Singing." The ceremony is held in memory of the Cherokee who were...

Tradition and The Snowbird | Periscope

Episode 9

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Over 500 Cherokee now live on tribal lands that make up the Snowbird Community. Tribal lands, or reservations, are protected for use by Native Americans. The Snowbird Cherokee have kept much of their...

Chapter 3: The Snowbird Cherokee | Periscope

Episode 7

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Only a few Cherokee escaped the Indian Removal Act. Those who remained found safe hiding places in the remote mountains and valleys of Appalachia. Today, the Snowbird community is home to many...

Map: Trail of Tears National History Trail | Periscope

Episode 6

Photo

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Between 1838 and 1839, over 15,000 Cherokee people were forced to march over 800 miles. The Cherokee's dangerous route began in the Appalachian mountains and ended in Oklahoma. Over 4,000 Cherokee...