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Standard USHC-4

USHC-4 The student will demonstrate an understanding of the industrial development and the consequences of that development on society and politics during the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries.

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

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2011

Colonization of Africa and The Berlin Conference of 1884

Lesson

Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12

Students will understand the role colonial expansion throughout the world played in the development of European nations.

Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote, Part 5 | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 5

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Susan Pringle Frost, a mentor to the Pollitzer sisters, was the founder of the Charleston Equal Suffrage League. Anita Pollitzer went to work for that National American Women Suffrage Association...

Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote, Part 4 | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 4

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

In the early twentieth century, a trio of sisters from Charleston, SC, known as the Pollitzer sisters (Carrie, Mabel, and Anita) embraced the opportunities for social reform. The Pollitzers came from...

Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote, Part 3 | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 3

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Support for women’s right to vote was growing in South Carolina. A custody battle and scandal between two legendary SC families gave the women’s suffrage movement a boost in SC. Lucy Pickens Dugas was...

Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote, Part 2 | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 2

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Beginning in 1899, the Poppenheim sisters published a monthly magazine called The Keystone. The magazine pointed out the manner in which the Confederate “Lost Cause” movement celebrated the...

Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote, Part 1 | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 1

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

South Carolina, a mostly rural state in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was racially divided and impoverished after Reconstruction. Its economy was mainly agrarian, growing crops...

Charleston Tea Garden Video Questions | From the Sky

Document

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

Keep your students engaged while watching the Charleston Tea Garden From the Sky video with these video questions. Students are also asked to find two additional facts about Columbia when done!

Charleston Tea Garden | From the Sky

Video

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

With over 25,000 farms and 4 million acres farmland in South Carolina, agriculture is the number one industry in the state. Corn, Cotton, and Soybeans are some of the top commodities but there’s only...

Sisterhood: SC Suffragists-Moving Forward, Part 6

Episode 6

Video

Grades: 5 8 Higher Education Professional Development

Each member of the panel discusses what she feels are the most important issues America faces now, regarding voting rights.

Turn of the Century Immigration

Lesson

Grades: 11

Students discover the advantages and disadvantages of having a nation filled with diverse ethnic groups.