Standard 8.2 Eduring Understanding

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

B. Dicey Langston

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This South Carolina Women's program focuses on Revolutionary War heroine fourteen-year-old Dicey Langston, a young South Carolina girl who risked danger to help the Patriot cause. It a tale of courage...
Thomas Sumter, The Gamecock | Palmetto Special

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At the battle of Fishdam Ford on the Broad River, Thomas Sumter had an opportunity to get personal revenge on a man who hours earlier had attempted to kill him. This segment depicts the events that...
S.C. Revolutionary War Leaders | Palmetto Special

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MARION, SUMTER, PICKENS Thomas Sumter, the "Gamecock," Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox," and Andrew Pickens, the "Wizard Owl" are perhaps the best known of South Carolina's Revolutionary War leaders...
Charles Pinckney | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Statesman Charles Pinckney's beliefs helped forge the United States Constitution. Fluent in five languages, yet educated and reared entirely on South Carolina soil, this man was elected four times to...
Thomas Heyward Jr. | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Biography of the life of Declaration of Independence signer and noted statesman Thomas Heyward, Jr. Through the use of archival materials, scholar interviews, historic sites, and reenactments, this...
King Hagler | S.C. Hall of Fame

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“King Hagler” was the leader of the Catawba Indian Nation. He had a reputation as peacekeeper with other tribes and colonists. In 1751, Hagler signed a treaty with the Six Nations. In 1756, Catawba...