This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into the immigration and migration patterns of different groups within South Carolina, including their economic, political, and social power to do so. This indicator also promotes inquiry into an exploration of such ideas as the expansion of slavery and hostilities with the native peoples.

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

Content Type
From Sparks to Surrender: The French and Indian War

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From Sparks to Surrender: The French and Indian War

Students use History in a Nutshell videos Part 1 and Part 2 to trace how tension in the Ohio Valley ignited a wider war, how leadership shifts turned the tide, and how the Treaty of Paris created...

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Lemmon Hill Plantation, Part 5
Episode 5
Project Discovery visits a restored plantation from the 1790s, built in Winnsboro, in Fairfield County.
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Lemmon Hill Plantation, Part 1
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Project Discovery visits a restored plantation from the 1790s, built in Winnsboro, in Fairfield County.
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Lemmon Hill Plantation, Part 2
Episode 2
Project Discovery visits a restored plantation from the 1790s, built in Winnsboro, in Fairfield County.
Settling the Backcountry

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Settling the Backcountry

South Carolina began as a proprietary colony, but in order to attract more settlers, the proprietors gave some of their political control to the landowners. This, however, did not mean that they...

 Winds of Discontent | Conversations on S.C. History 7

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Winds of Discontent | Conversations on S.C. History
Episode 7
Noted South Carolina historian Dr. Walter Edgar discusses the key issues in SC History. Dr. Edgar discusses the winds of discontent in SC in three lessons: Pre-Revolutionary Conflicts and Issues...
 Family Across the Sea, Part 4 | SCETV Specials (1990) 4

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Family Across the Sea, Part 4 | SCETV Specials (1990)
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Family Across the Sea, Part 4 Like the Black Seminoles who fled white civilization, blacks began to return to Africa in the 19th century. Historian Alpha Bah has studied the return of blacks to Sierra...
 Family Across the Sea, Part 3 | SCETV Specials (1990) 3

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Family Across the Sea, Part 3 | SCETV Specials (1990)
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Family Across the Sea, Part 3 Anthropologist Joe Opala has studied the history of slavery from the African side of the ocean. He has tracked a remarkable series of connections that end in Charleston...
 Family Across the Sea, Part 2 | SCETV Specials (1990) 2

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Family Across the Sea, Part 2 | SCETV Specials (1990)
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Family Across the Sea, Part 2 A young black scholar named Lorenzo Turner began to research Gullah culture and language. Folklorists and historians who had studied this culture before Turner and...
 William Gilmore Simms | S.C. Hall of Fame

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William Gilmore Simms | S.C. Hall of Fame
William Gilmore Simms was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He was a poet, novelist, and historian whose work was a major force in antebellum Southern literature. He was called one of America’s best...
Space Camp | Project Discovery Revisited Avery Research Center | Project Discovery Revisited

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Avery Research Center | Project Discovery Revisited
Charleston, South Carolina, is a city rich in African American culture. Sullivan’s Island, once an entry port from Africa for the slave trade, was considered the gateway to the United States. The...