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This indicator was designed to encourage inquiry into the economic implications of the expansion of the rice and cotton industries. This indicator was also developed to promote inquiry into Westward Expansion, the mutually beneficial impact of cotton

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

The Reconstruction Amendments, Part 2 | History In A Nutshell

Episode 2

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Grades: 4 8 9 10 11 12

After the Civil War, the U.S. had a long road ahead for rebuilding the country. In addition to fixing the country's infrastructure, the U.S. needed to mend the social and political inequities many...

The Reconstruction Amendments, Part 1 | History In A Nutshell

Episode 1

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Grades: 4 8 9 10 11 12

The question of "the peculiar institution" known as slavery had been hotly debated long before the American Civil War. This video outlines the reasons the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S...

The Ship "Glad Tidings" | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 17

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Grades: 4 8

The end of the war signaled the end of the blockade of southern ports. In November 1865, the ship "Glad Tidings" entered the port of Liverpool in England with a shipment of Carolina cotton. Cotton...

Freedmen's Contract, 1866 | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 8

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Grades: 4 8

When the war ended, one of the pressing problems was the status of those who had been slaves. African-Americans had provided the essential labor, without which the agricultural economy of the region...

Practical Illustration of the Fugitive Slave Law | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 15

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Grades: 4 8 9 10 11 12

The lands added to the nation through the conquests of the Mexican War raised anew the question of whether or not slavery would be allowed to expand into the new territories of the west. For two years...

Runaway Slaves | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 14

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Grades: 4 8 9 10 11 12

Runaway slaves were a constant problem in maintaining a workforce of unfree laborers. Slaves ran away because of mistreatment, out of a desire for freedom, or often simply to be reunited with husbands...

Plantation Owner Land Distribution | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 12

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Grades: 8

This relief map of what is now Parris Island shows the distribution of the land among the large plantation owners around 1820. Courtesy of the United States Marine Corps, Parris Island Museum.

Lemmon Hill Plantation, Part 1

Episode 1

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

Project Discovery visits a restored plantation from the 1790s, built in Winnsboro, in Fairfield County.

Tenant Farmers | Pee Dee Explorer

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Grades: 6 7 8

Learn the history of African-American tenant farmers during the era of reconstruction as Karl McAlis ter , Francis Marion University Librarian, takes us on a tour of the two remaining hewn timber...

When Rice Was King

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Grades: 6 7 8

Discusses the significance of rice to Georgetown, South Carolina

Marlboro County History | Pee Dee Explorer

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Grades: 6 7 8

The history of Marlboro County, South Carolina

A Living Farm Museum | Pee Dee Explorer

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Learn about the significance of farming in the lives of African Americans. As the only African American historical living farm museum in the United States, Freewoods Farm is devoted to recognizing the...

Clio | Pee Dee Explorer

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Grades: 6 7 8

The history of one of South Carolina's most important crops, cotton