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This indicator was designed to encourage inquiry into the economic, political, and social roles of colonial groups, to include free and enslaved people of African descent, Native Americans, and women, during the revolutionary period.

Grade(s): 4

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

SC Veterans in History, Part 3

Episode 3

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

The importance of black Patriots in the American Revolution is discussed. In addition to black Patriots, there were a number of South Carolina women who served as heroes during the American Revolution...

Oconee Station | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 13

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Grades: 4 8

Oconee Station (also labeled Salem Blockhouse, north of Walhalla). Made of local field stone, this was one of a series of fortifications built for protection against the Native Americans in the...

Cherokee Alphabet | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 12

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Grades: 4 8

The title page and first page of hymns, "Cherokee Hymnbook," printed in Philadelphia, for the American Baptists Publication Society around 1820. The Cherokee were a highly organized society, and early...

A Map of the American Indian Nations | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 10

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Grades: 4 8

"A Map of the American Indian Nations," from James Adair, "History of the American Indians," published in London in 1775. As the backcountry of South Carolina filled up, confrontation between the...

Tearcoat Swamp | Eye on the Past

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Brief history of the Revolutionary War Battle at Tearcoat Swamp, in 1780, near Sumter, S.C.

Santee Community | Periscope

Episode 2

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Like most Native Americans in South Carolina, the Santee have a history of trading with early colonists from Europe. In 1701, English explorer John Lawson described his meeting with the "King" of the...

Winds of Discontent | Conversations on S.C. History

Episode 7

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

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...

Jehu Jones | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 3 4 5

The lesson contains scenes with two of Jones' more prominent guests, portrait painter, Samuel F B Morse (later to gain fame with the telegraph and the Morse code) and famed British actor, William Kean...

Middleton Place Plantation | Project Discovery Revisited

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Middleton Place, on the Ashley River near Charleston, South Carolina, was the home of the Middleton family, which included the president of the First Continental Congress and a signer of the...