Standard USHC-3.1

USHC-3.1 Evaluate the relative importance of political events and issues that divided the nation and led to civil war, including the compromises reached to maintain the balance of free and slave states, the abolitionist movement, the Dred Scott case, c...

Grade(s): 9, 10, 11, 12

Year: 2011

The "Buffalo Soldiers": Contributions of the first African-American soldiers in the U.S. Army

Lesson

In this lesson, students will learn the history of this group of patriotic, but little-known African American soldiers that were organized in the mid-1800s, right after the Civil War. Two different...

South Carolina and the Civil War | Conversations on SC History

Episode 13

Video

Noted South Carolina historian Dr. Walter Edgar discusses the key issues in SC History. South Carolina and the Civil War is discussed in three lessons: Secession from the Union Beginning of the Civil...