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Standard 8-5

8-5 The student will understand the impact of Reconstruction, industrialization, and Progressivism on society and politics in South Carolina in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2011

Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote, Part 5 | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 5

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Susan Pringle Frost, a mentor to the Pollitzer sisters, was the founder of the Charleston Equal Suffrage League. Anita Pollitzer went to work for that National American Women Suffrage Association...

Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote, Part 4 | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 4

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

In the early twentieth century, a trio of sisters from Charleston, SC, known as the Pollitzer sisters (Carrie, Mabel, and Anita) embraced the opportunities for social reform. The Pollitzers came from...

Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote, Part 3 | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 3

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Support for women’s right to vote was growing in South Carolina. A custody battle and scandal between two legendary SC families gave the women’s suffrage movement a boost in SC. Lucy Pickens Dugas was...

Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote, Part 2 | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 2

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Beginning in 1899, the Poppenheim sisters published a monthly magazine called The Keystone. The magazine pointed out the manner in which the Confederate “Lost Cause” movement celebrated the...

Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote, Part 1 | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 1

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

South Carolina, a mostly rural state in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was racially divided and impoverished after Reconstruction. Its economy was mainly agrarian, growing crops...

Sisterhood: SC Suffragists-Moving Forward, Part 6

Episode 6

Video

Grades: 5 8 Higher Education Professional Development

Each member of the panel discusses what she feels are the most important issues America faces now, regarding voting rights.

Reconstruction

Lesson

Grades: 8

The students will be able to evaluate the outcome of the Civil War using primary documents.

Earth Day, Part 2 | Project Discovery

Episode 2

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Project Discovery looks further at the Ccngaree Swamp and how it became a protected park with an excerpt from the documentary "Roots in the River". (Part 2)