Lesson
Grades
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The teachers will show a PowerPoint presentation to review social studies standards, the Antebellum time period, social classes, and photos of people from the time period. Students will re-create the...
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Standard 3-4.1
3-4.1 - Compare the economic conditions for various classes of people in South Carolina, including the elite, the middle class, the lower class, the independent farmers, and the enslaved and free African Americans.
Grade(s): 3
Subject(s): Social Studies
Year: 2011
Lesson
Grades
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Students will create tableaus and original dialogue to demonstrate an understanding of the social classes of the Antebellum time period.
Video
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History of slavery in urban settings and the tags worn by slaves who were hired to work for the city or for other slave owners in cities like Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, and Norfolk. Laws required...
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Episode
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Noted South Carolina historian Dr. Walter Edgar discusses the key issues in SC History. Life and culture in the New States is discussed in four lessons: Post Revolutionary War in SC South Carolina's...
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The Reenactment: The opening scene is the Hot and Hot Fish Club at Waccamaw Neck, c.1850. Young Paul Weston is playing a game of billiards with Hugh Fraser and lamenting his father's recent death.They...
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The lesson contains scenes with two of Jones' more prominent guests, portrait painter, Samuel F B Morse (later to gain fame with the telegraph and the Morse code) and famed British actor, William Kean...
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Kings Mountain was the site of an important battle of the Revolutionary War. The British were defeated and started a retreat to Yorktown, where they eventually lost the war, giving the 13 colonies...