Sarah Moore Grimké and Angelina Emily Grimké 103 | Idella Bodie's S.C. Women

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Part three of the story of Sarah Moore Grimké and Angelina Emily Grimké.

Sarah Moore Grimké (1792-1873) and Angelina Emily Grimké (1805-1879) followed a similar path, speaking out and leaving home to join the fight for the abolition of slavery and equal rights for women.

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Social Studies [Elementary (3-5)]

3-4.0 South Carolina played a key role in events that occurred before, during, and after the Civil War; and those events, in turn, greatly affected the state. To understand South Carolinas experiences during this tumultuous time, the student will utilize the knowledge and skills set forth in the following indicators:
- Social Studies [Elementary (3-5)]
  
  3-4.1 Compare the economic conditions for various classes of people in South Carolina, including the elite, the middle class, the lower class, the independent farmers, and the enslaved and free African Americans.
- Social Studies [Elementary (3-5)]
  
  3-4.2 Summarize the development of slavery in antebellum South Carolina, including the invention of the cotton gin and the subsequent expansion of and economic dependence on slavery.
- Social Studies [Elementary (3-5)]
  
  3-4.3 Explain the reasons for South Carolinas secession from the Union, including the abolitionist movement and the concept of states rights.
Social Studies [Elementary (3-5)]

4-6.0 Regional economic interests led to social and political differences that seemed insurmountable by 1860. To understand why the United States was forced to settle sectional differences through civil war, the student will utilize the knowledge and skills set forth in the following indicators:
- Social Studies [Elementary (3-5)]
  
  4-6.2 Explain the contributions of abolitionists to the mounting tensions between the North and South over slavery, including William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown.
Social Studies [Middle School (6-8)]

8-4.0 The outbreak of the Civil War was the culminating event in a decades-long series of regional issues that threatened American unity and South Carolinas identity as one of the United States. To understand how South Carolina came to be at the center of this conflict, the student will utilize the knowledge and skills set forth in the following indicators:
- Social Studies [Middle School (6-8)]
  
  8-4.2 Analyze how sectionalism arose from racial tension, including the Denmark Vesey plot, slave codes and the growth of the abolitionist movement.
- Social Studies [Middle School (6-8)]
  
  8-4.3 Analyze key issues that led to South Carolinas secession from the Union, including the nullification controversy and John C. Calhoun, the extension of slavery and the compromises over westward expansion, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Dred Scott decision, and the election of 1860.
- Social Studies [Middle School (6-8)]
  
  8-4.4 Evaluate the arguments of unionists, cooperationists, and secessionists on the issues of states rights and slavery and the ways that these arguments contributed to South Carolinas secession.

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