Grade(s): 8
Subject(s): Social Studies
Year: 2019
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Project Discovery celebrates Earth Day with a program hosted at the Congaree National Park. (Part 1)
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Part 4 - Pacolet, South Carolina Carolina Stories: When the Mill Closes Down examines South Carolina's rich textile history and the people who worked it. The program follows recent mill closings and...
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Part 5 - Simpsonville, South Carolina Carolina Stories: When the Mill Closes Down examines South Carolina's rich textile history and the people who worked it. The program follows recent mill closings...
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Part 6 - Graniteville, South Carolina Carolina Stories: When the Mill Closes Down examines South Carolina's rich textile history and the people who worked it. The program follows recent mill closings...
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Part 1 - Columbia, South Carolina Carolina Stories: When the Mill Closes Down examines South Carolina's rich textile history and the people who worked it. The program follows recent mill closings and...
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Looking at the transition from hand-held farming to the advent of machines. In the past, tobacco was a labor-intensive crop. People handled every leaf throughout the growing, harvesting and curing...
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A look at the struggle to find crops to replace tobacco. Some farmers have substituted cattle, corn, beans and other vegetables for tobacco, but the profits are not what they were with tobacco.
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Understanding the challenges of farming in Mullins today. Health Risks of Tobacco Almost a half-million Americans die of smoking-related illnesses every year, making smoking the leading cause of...
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The history of sharecropping and its after-effects in the tobacco industry. After the Civil War, former enslaved Africans had a great desire to own their own farms. Most freedmen were very poor...