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Standard 4.5.P

4.5.P Summarize Reconstruction as a turning point in American history.

Grade(s): 4

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

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Putting Together History – The Life of Robert Smalls
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...

 Henry Louis Gates Talks Reconstruction | Palmetto Scene
Henry Louis Gates Talks Reconstruction | Palmetto Scene

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. joined South Carolina ETV's Beryl Dakers in Beaufort, South Carolina to discuss his latest project, Reconstruction: America After the Civil War. RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA...
 The Role of the Freedmen’s Bureau   |  Reconstruction 360
The Role of the Freedmen’s Bureau | Reconstruction 360

Video

Grades: 4 8 9 10 11 12

The Freedmen’s Bureau had responsibility for every aspect of the lives of formerly enslaved people, and was in charge of land that came under federal control during and after the Civil War. In 1872...
 Forty Acres and a Mule  | Reconstruction 360
Forty Acres and a Mule | Reconstruction 360

Video

Grades: 4 8 9 10 11 12

Historian Kate Masur explains the origins of 40 Acres and a Mule, a famous phrase that many have heard but may not fully understand. It originated in the early days of Reconstruction, when General...
 Woodrow Wilson Family Home | Let's Go!
Woodrow Wilson Family Home | Let's Go!

Video

Grades: 2 4

The Woodrow Wilson House in Columbia is the only museum in the nation dedicated to telling the story of Reconstruction. Reconstruction - the period after the end of the Civil War - remains one of the...
3D VR - Woodrow Wilson Family Home  | Let's Go!
3D VR - Woodrow Wilson Family Home | Let's Go!

Interactive

Grades: 2 4

Located on 1705 Hampton Street, in historic downtown Columbia, South Carolina, this is the home where President Woodrow Wilson spent four years of his childhood. The house was built in 1871, during...
 Reconstruction | Palmetto Heritage
Reconstruction | Palmetto Heritage

Video

Grades: 4 8

This show explains the importance of the election of 1876 and as a result how SC at one time had 2 governors from different political parties, who tried to rule the state at the same time...
 Reconstruction | Conversations on SC History 14
Reconstruction | Conversations on SC History
Episode 14

Video

Grades: 4 8 11

Noted South Carolina historian Dr. Walter Edgar discusses the key issues in SC History. Reconstruction is discussed in three lessons: Difficult Period in History Economics Election Issues.
 Agricultural Depression | Palmetto Special
Agricultural Depression | Palmetto Special

Video

Grades: 4 5 8

The opening and closing wraparounds take place by an old abandoned tenant farm house in Pickens County near Clemson University. Here the host establishes the location and story line. The Reenactment...
 Attending Seminary  | Idella Bodie's S.C. Women 3
Attending Seminary | Idella Bodie's S.C. Women
Episode 3

Video

Grades: 4 8

Mary McLeod Bethune, Part 3 - Attending Seminary Mary receives a scholarship to attend seminary in Concord, North Carolina. She receives her own room at the top of the stairs. She struggles at first...
 Mary's Early Life | Idella Bodie's S.C. Women 1
Mary's Early Life | Idella Bodie's S.C. Women
Episode 1

Video

Grades: 4 8

Mary McLeod Bethune, Part 1 - Mary's Early Life The beginning of the Mary McLeod Bethune story. Mary was a sharecropper’s daughter, one of seventeen children, who from a young age had a desire and...
 Opens Her First School | Idella Bodie's S.C. Women 4
Opens Her First School | Idella Bodie's S.C. Women
Episode 4

Video

Grades: 4 8

Mary McLeod Bethune, Part 4 - Opens Her First School Unable to find a position as an African American, she returns to Maysville with her husband Albertus, a fellow teacher. They find a schoolhouse in...