Lesson 7 - Winds of Discontent | Conversations on S.C. History

Noted South Carolina historian Dr. Walter Edgar discusses the key issues in SC History.

Dr. Edgar discusses the winds of discontent in SC in three lessons:

• Pre-Revolutionary Conflicts and Issues
• Education and Classes
• Sanitation in the Colonies.

Standards

• 3-3 The student will demonstrate an understanding of the American Revolution and South Carolina’s role in the development of the new American nation.
  • People establish governments to provide stability and ensure the protection of their rights as citizens. To understand the causes and results of the American Revolution on South Carolina, the student will utilize the knowledge and skills set forth in ...
    • 3-3.1 Summarize the causes of the American Revolution, including Britain’s passage of the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, and the Intolerable Acts; the rebellion of the colonists; and the writing of the Declaration of Independence.
• This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into the process which led to the formation of the U.S. government, including the convening of the Continental Congresses, the passage of the Articles of Confederation, and the adoption of the U.S. Constitution.
  • This indicator was designed to encourage inquiry into the economic, political, and social roles of colonial groups, to include free and enslaved people of African descent, Native Americans, and women, during the revolutionary period.
• Political and economic developments underscored how the colonists in British North America had become uniquely American, prompting the development of a new nation. Drawing on their experience under British rule, the founding generation created a government with shared powers between the state and federal institutions.
  • This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into the immigration and migration patterns of different groups within South Carolina, including their economic, political, and social power to do so. This indicator also promotes inquiry into an explo...
  • 8.2.E Utilize a variety of primary and secondary sources to analyze multiple perspectives on the development of democracy in South Carolina and the United States.
• CE Causation-Analyze multiple causes and effects, to include distinguishing long-term and short-term examples.
• CE Causation-Analyze significant turning points in history to assess multiple long-term and short-term causes and effects.