"The Palmetto Special" goes to John C. Calhoun's old homeplace, Fort Hill on the Clemson campus. Four students, who also appear in the dramatic portion, tour the mansion and grounds. The conclusion of the program is at Calhoun's gravesite at St. Phillips Episcopal Churchyard in Charleston.
The Reenactment #1 - It is the summer of 1829. Vice-President Calhoun is spending the Congressional recess at his home near Pendleton, South Carolina. His youngest daughter, Cornelia, crippled from a fall in a swing, helps her father with his correspondence. He writes to a colleague in the Senate from South Carolina, Robert Y Hayne, expressing concern over the deteriorating relations between himself and President Jackson. Calhoun discusses his theory of nullification with his son Andrew, who is off to Yale, his father's alma mater, in the fall.
The Reenactment #2 - In the family dining room, tension, caused by pressing national affairs, is broken by the antics of young cousin Ted. This portion concludes in Washington for the Jefferson Day Dinner in April of 1830 where toasts from the President and Vice-President bring their seething rift out into the open. All of the characters in the program were real. The situation at the dinner table with Ted and the duck was real, as were the toasts at the Jefferson Day Dinner.
The other situations might have occurred similar to the way they were portrayed Major locations for the reenactments were Fort Hill, Clemson, South Carolina, and the Mills House, Charleston, South Carolina
"The Palmetto Special" goes to John C. Calhoun's old homeplace, Fort Hill on the Clemson campus. Four students, who also appear in the dramatic portion, tour the mansion and grounds. The conclusion of the program is at Calhoun's gravesite at St. Phillips Episcopal Churchyard in Charleston.
The Reenactment #1 - It is the summer of 1829. Vice-President Calhoun is spending the Congressional recess at his home near Pendleton, South Carolina. His youngest daughter, Cornelia, crippled from a fall in a swing, helps her father with his correspondence. He writes to a colleague in the Senate from South Carolina, Robert Y Hayne, expressing concern over the deteriorating relations between himself and President Jackson. Calhoun discusses his theory of nullification with his son Andrew, who is off to Yale, his father's alma mater, in the fall.
The Reenactment #2 - In the family dining room, tension, caused by pressing national affairs, is broken by the antics of young cousin Ted. This portion concludes in Washington for the Jefferson Day Dinner in April of 1830 where toasts from the President and Vice-President bring their seething rift out into the open. All of the characters in the program were real. The situation at the dinner table with Ted and the duck was real, as were the toasts at the Jefferson Day Dinner.
The other situations might have occurred similar to the way they were portrayed Major locations for the reenactments were Fort Hill, Clemson, South Carolina, and the Mills House, Charleston, South Carolina
Standards
- 4.3.CX Contextualize South Carolina’s role in the development of sectionalism during the antebellum period.
- 4.4.CO Compare the economic and political causes of the Civil War.
- 8.3.CO Compare the debates between South Carolina and the federal government regarding slavery, federalism, and the Constitution.
- This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into the debates, heightened by Westward Expansion, over federal and state power concerning slavery, and the government's role in protecting and securing natural rights.
Resources
About Palmetto Special
This overview acquaints students and teachers with The Palmetto Special series and how to utilize the SC History content in the classroom.
View AssetAgricultural Depression | Palmetto Special
The opening and closing wraparounds take place by an old abandoned tenant farm house in Pickens County near Clemson University. Here the host establishes the location and story line. The Reenactment...
View AssetAndrew Pickens, the Wizard Owl | Palmetto Special
The television lesson includes a segment on each man designed to give an insight into his character. Andrew Pickens had been parolled by the British in Charleston when that city was captured in May...
View AssetBurning of Columbia | Palmetto Special
The host ties the reenactment together at various intervals in the story in various spots around Columbia that are particularly associated with Sherman's invasion, such as the area across the Congaree...
View AssetCarolina Indians | Palmetto Special
The lesson consists of the host and three students visiting Keowee-Toxaway State Park in Pickens County. The story of the Cherokee is told there through drawings and artifacts in a series of display...
View AssetCarolina Style | Palmetto Special
This lesson is a brief survey of the art, architecture, literature and theatre of South Carolina. It opens with a series of skits where "comedic characters" "put down" South Carolina's interest in...
View AssetCharles Town | Palmetto Special
A dramatic sequence is included in this wraparound. It is an analogy to the eight Lords Proprietors receiving the grant of Carolina from King Charles II. Five people gather for lunch to discuss a...
View AssetCharlesfort | Palmetto Special
This episode goes from Columbia to Parris Island in Beaufort County. Parris Island today is the home of a large Marine Corps training base. There is a monument there, similar in the design to one...
View AssetDenmark Vesey's Plot | Palmetto Special
The program begins with Vesey discussing the condition of slavery with an acquaintance who is a slave Later, at a meeting, details of the plot are worked out with co-conspirators including Peter Poyas...
View AssetDr. Ron McNair Speaking at USC Commencement | Palmetto Special
As Dr Ron McNair spoke at a University of South Carolina commencement exercise, he said, "the road between South Carolina and space flight is not a very simple one, nor is it one filled with...
View AssetField to Factory | Palmetto Special
This program is based on an oral history conducted by the New Jersey Multi-Ethnic Oral History Project. The subject is a black woman who moved with her family from South Carolina to New Jersey in the...
View AssetFort Sumter | Palmetto Special
REENACTMENT: Four of the principals at Fort Sumter discuss in retrospect events that led to the "firing of the first shot of the Civil War." These people are: Major Robert Anderson; Commander of the...
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