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Standard 8.4.CE

8.4.CE

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

Robert Smalls | Carolina Snaps

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Robert Smalls was a former slave and Civil War hero who made a significant impact on American history. Born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina in 1839, Smalls worked on the docks and was trained...

Women's Suffrage Movement, Part 2 | History In A Nutshell

Episode 2

Video

Grades: 5 8 11

The second generation of suffragists came to prominence alongside the "New Woman" movement in the early 1900's. The American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association...

World War I | History In A Nutshell

Episode 1

Video

Grades: 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

A brief video on World War I: how the war started, the U.S.' involvement, fighting the war, and the aftermath, with the Treaty of Versailles. *Important Note: Italy was originally a member of the...

Bitter Sweets: Mapping Pineapples, Hospitality and Slavery

Lesson

Grades: 8

This lesson introduces students to historic primary and secondary source documents and geospatial technology to explore nineteenth-century slavery and trade between the Caribbean and United States...

Race And Gender Integration | Victory Starts Here: Fort Jackson Centennial

Episode 2

Video

Grades: 8

One of Fort Jackson’s crowning achievements is leading the way in race and gender integration in the military.

Intro And History | Victory Starts Here: Fort Jackson Centennial

Episode 1

Video

Grades: 8

Fort Jackson celebrates its one hundred year anniversary. Part one of this special chronicles Fort Jackson’s history, and how it evolved over time, from a camp, to a permanent U.S. Army installation.

Over Here: The Homefront During WWI: Military Camps | Carolina Stories

Episode 5

Video

Grades: 8

World War I brought big business to towns that housed soldiers in military camps. On June 2, 1917 was Camp Jackson established. After 11 days of construction, the first trainees arrived. Owners of...

Over Here: The Homefront During WWI: Flu Epidemic | Carolina Stories

Episode 6

Video

Grades: 8

The flu epidemic created horrors not only overseas, but at home. The origin of the epidemic was not certain to doctors and scientists, but several theories were proposed. One theory proposed it came...

Over Here: The Homefront During WWI: Armistice | Carolina Stories

Episode 7

Video

Grades: 8

The armistice was signed November 11, 1918 and it brought the end of a long and terrible war. For South Carolina, World War I brought unity and change. Camp Jackson was emptied a year after it was...

Over Here: The Homefront During WWI: Women | Carolina Stories

Episode 4

Video

Grades: 8

Eugenia Duke went into business making sandwiches and would later become a successful entrepreneur with the production and selling of Duke Mayonnaise. Eugenia's mayonnaise did not call for sugar...

Over Here: The Homefront During WWI: Race | Carolina Stories

Episode 3

Video

Grades: 8

Although in 1917 more African Americans were educated and attempting to gain equality, Jim Crow laws and racial attitudes still controlled their political and economic opportunities in South Carolina...

Over Here: The Homefront During WWI: Pro-War | Carolina Stories

Episode 2

Video

Grades: 5 8

South Carolina's affection for President Wilson seemed to fuel Coleman Blease's outspoken opposition. Supported by newspapers in Aiken and Charleston, Blease tried to use race to stir opposition. He...

Over Here: The Homefront During WWI: Anti-War | Carolina Stories

Episode 1

Video

Grades: 5 8

In comparison to other wars, particularly in South Carolina, on a scale of remembrance, probably World War II is right up there at the top. Civil War would be next, but World War I may be a forgotten...

Field to Factory | Palmetto Special

Video

Grades: 5 8

This program is based on an oral history conducted by the New Jersey Multi-Ethnic Oral History Project. The subject is a black woman who moved with her family from South Carolina to New Jersey in the...

Two Fallen SC Soldiers | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 9

Photo

Grades: 5 8

Many young South Carolinians lost their lives in the First World War. This sheet music celebrates two Sumter natives, Robert O. Purdy and Ervin D. Shaw, after whom Shaw Air Base was named. The verse...

Third Liberty Loan Parade Float | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 7

Photo

Grades: 8

The Kershaw Mills of Springs Manufacturing sponsored this float in the Third Liberty Loan Parade on April 27, 1918, urging mill workers to participate in the war effort by buying Victory Bonds...

Camp Sevier | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 6

Photo

Grades: 8

Many young men recruited into the army were trained at Camp Sevier, near Greenville. Motor Truck Companies 101 and 218 lived in this tent city. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

First Breakfast at Camp Jackson, 1898 | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 2

Photo

Grades: 8

James S. White of Rock Hill kept a scrapbook of his activities as a Second Lieutenant in Company G of the first South Carolina Infantry during the Spanish-American War. Here he and his friend J.C...

SC Veterans in History, Part 8

Episode 8

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

A group of Columbia businessmen met one afternoon, raised the money, bought the acreage, and made a gift to the federal government of the land on which the camp was to be built. On June 2, 1917, Camp...

SC Veterans in History, Part 6

Episode 6

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

This segment provides information on the Confederate Relic Room and answers a question about women who served in the Civil War. The definition of the word "relic" is provided, and information about...

Belle Baruch and the Women’s Suffrage Movement

Lesson

Grades: 8

Objectives Discover the history behind women’s suffrage Develop vocabulary related to civics and citizenship Make personal connections to suffrage history

Between the Waters – Analyzing Historical Photographs Activity

Lesson

Grades: 5, 8

Students will examine and analyze the historical photographs found on the sites, Between the Waters, Georgetown County Digital Library, and the Belle W. Baruch Collection .

Six Degrees of the Gilded Age in South Carolina

Lesson

Grades: 8

This activity is based loosely on the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. The teacher can choose to place students into five different groups, giving each group a challenge question, or can make this an...