Video
Grades
- 4
- 8
Episode
5
This brief episode summarizes the importance of Fort Sumter and the events that occurred there in shaping the destiny of our nation.
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Standard 8.3.P
8.3.P
Grade(s): 8
Subject(s): Social Studies
Year: 2019
Video
Grades
- 4
- 8
Episode
4
Episode 4 focuses on the attempts of the North to take back Fort Sumter and hopefully bring the war to an end. This episode illustrates the struggles of African American soldiers who fought bravely on...
Lesson
Grades
- 8
Students will be able to analyze and interpret the meaning of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment and the impact it had on individuals and families in the Northern and Southern states in the United...
Video
Grades
- 8
- 12
Teachers in this lesson have students evaluate current events surrounding racial discrimination. Teachers lead students through why and how historians use a historical lens to discuss racial issues in...
Lesson
Grades
- 8
Students will examine Reconstruction from a legislative point of view and a social point of view using guiding questions and activities to examine the Reconstruction Constitutions of 1865, 1868, and...
Lesson
Grades
- 8
- 11
Students will determine major educational, social and political issues or problems facing African Americans following Reconstruction. Students will analyze the successes and failures of such...
Video
Grades
- 4
- 8
The area of Georgetown went from one of the wealthiest districts prior to the Civil War, to one of the poorest. Lee Brockington, senior interpreter at Hobcaw Barony, discusses the impact of the ending...
Lesson
Grades
- 4
- 8
- 9
This lesson can be a component of a year-long project based lesson on civil rights or one part of a single, shorter PBL focusing only the civil rights era after World War II. This particular extension...
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...
Lesson
Grades
- 8
During Reconstruction and the years following the end of Reconstruction, segregation and redemptive southern policies greatly affected the lives of African Americans. Use the background information...
Video
Grades
- 4
- 8
- 11
Episode
14
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.