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Standard USHC.3.CE

USHC.3.CE Assess the causes and effects of significant turning points in the Populist and Progressive era from 1877–1924.

Grade(s): 11

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

Girl Bill of Rights - Handout

Document

Grades: 5 8 11

This is an excellent video viewing document for Episode 1 of Sisterhood: SC Suffrage (Thee Grimke Sisters through the Civil War – Part 1). While viewing the video clip students can reflect and write...

What Makes A Grimké Sister? - Handout

Document

Grades: 5 8

With this handout students can use magazines, poster board, and any other creative things they can find to fill the silhouette with all the things that describe the Grimké Sisters.

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...

The Rollin Sisters | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 5

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 11

The Rollin Sisters are essentially silenced after Reconstruction, and are forced to move away from South Carolina due to the increasing violence by “Red Shirts”, and Ku Klux Klan members. In the fight...

The Rollin Sisters | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 4

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 11

The South Carolina Woman Suffrage Association was founded in Columbia in 1870, with Charlotte Rollin as the Chair. A charter is created and sent to Lucy Stone, one of the founders of the American...

The Rollin Sisters | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 3

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 11

During this period, there were many people, including African Americans, who felt the issue of women’s suffrage was much less important than civil rights for Blacks. In the 1868 Constitutional...

The Rollin Sisters | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 2

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 11

The Civil War brought an abrupt change to the Rollin Family, ending a period where, according to Frances Rollin, “free people of color were at the zenith of their prosperity”. The Rollin family’s...

The Rollin Sisters | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists

Episode 1

Video

Grades: 4 5 8 11

Frances Rollin was propelled into the national spotlight with the Pilot Boy steamship incident, in Charleston, South Carolina, where the captain refused her service due to the color of her skin...

Women's Suffrage Movement Photo Gallery | History In A Nutshell

Photo

Grades: 4 5 8 11 Higher Education

This photo gallery includes the following: The 19th Amendment In the beginning, the Abolition and Women's Suffrage Movements were intertwined Frederick Douglass - A famous proponent of Women's...