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Standard 4.4.CC

4.4.CC Identify and evaluate the economic, political, and social changes experienced throughout the Civil War.

Grade(s): 4

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

Civil War Uniforms & Equipment

Lesson

Grades: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Students delve into Fort Lamar's history and the Civil War through a documentary. Analyzing photographs and recreating a soldier's belongings, they explore how artifacts offer unique insights into the...

A Family's Escape to Freedom | Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie

Episode 3

Video

Grades: 4 8

The cunning and bravery of South Carolinian, Robert Smalls, is featured in this episode, as he brings his family and others to freedom under the guns of Fort Sumter in the early years of the war. [We...

The Start of the Civil War | Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie

Episode 2

Video

Grades: 4 8

This episode explores the events that led to the bombardment of Fort Sumter, the opening event of the Civil War. It also follows the movement of Major Robert Anderson and his garrison from Fort...

Putting Together History – The Life of Robert Smalls

Lesson

Grades: 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Part of this activity is based very loosely on the game Mastermind This activity is designed to be completed in small groups, but could be modified to be completed by individual students. Each group...

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...

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...

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...

Mann-Simons House Photo Gallery | Let's Go!

Photo

Grades: 4 5 6 8 11

Mann-Simons Partial Family Tree Mann-Simons Family Portraits Case of Excavated Artifacts, Including A Rubber "Bouncy" Ball Photograph of John Lucius Simons, Sr.'s Sons: John Lucius Simons, Jr. (Left)...

Plantation "Streets" Of The "Negro Quarters" | History Of South Carolina Slide Collection

Episode 16

Photo

Grades: 4 8

During slavery, although plantation owners attempted to control the lives and activities of their slave labor, a vital community based on African traditions of family and kin networks aided African...

Currency During the Civil War | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 41

Photo

Grades: 4 8

Both the Union and the Confederacy had to resort to creative efforts to finance the heavy expenses of the Civil War. Both taxed their citizens. That was not enough, and both governments resorted to...

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...

The Ship "Glad Tidings" | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 17

Photo

Grades: 4 8

The end of the war signaled the end of the blockade of southern ports. In November 1865, the ship "Glad Tidings" entered the port of Liverpool in England with a shipment of Carolina cotton. Cotton...

Distribution of old clothing sent from the North--1864 | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 9

Photo

Grades: 4 8 12

A sketch, signed by J.E. Taylor, of a prisoner-of-war camp during the Civil War. "Distribution of old clothing sent from the North--1864." Courtesy of the Lackawanna Historical Society.

Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Heritage

Video

Grades: 4 8

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...

Susan B. Anthony Met Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1851 | Periscope

Episode 3

Photo

Grades: 3 4 5

After teaching for over 10 years, Susan began to work for social change. She joined the temperance movement to abolish alcohol and drunkenness. Although women were allowed to work for the movement...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony Met in 1851 | Periscope

Episode 5

Photo

Grades: 3 4 5

Elizabeth Cady Stanton introduced Susan B. Anthony to the Women's Rights Movement in 1851. Susan and Elizabeth gathered thousands of signatures on petitions for suffrage. Together, they published a...

Women's Rights Supporters' First Meeting | Periscope

Episode 4

Photo

Grades: 3 4 5 9 10 11 12

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and a small group of women's rights supporters met at Elizabeth's house in 1848 to plan the first women's rights convention. In addition to writing the...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Periscope

Episode 3

Photo

Grades: 3 4 5 9 10 11 12

In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton invited Lucretia Mott and a small group of women's rights supporters to her home in Seneca Falls, New York. There, they wrote one of the most important documents of the...

South Carolina and the Civil War | Conversations on SC History

Episode 13

Video

Grades: 4 8 11

Noted South Carolina historian Dr. Walter Edgar discusses the key issues in SC History. South Carolina and the Civil War is discussed in three lessons: Secession from the Union Beginning of the Civil...

William Gregg | S.C. Hall of Fame

Video

Grades: 4 8

William Gregg (1800-1867) was born in Charleston and was a leading advocate of Southern industrialization. He founded a successful cotton mill in Graniteville, South Carolina and brought the concept...