The Spanish at Santa Elena & The French at Charles Fort | Circle of Inheritance Segment 6 (3:36) - Episode 6

Circle of Inheritance takes a look at an excavation showing that the Spanish settlement at Santa Elena was located on the same site as the French settlement at Charles Fort, near Parris Island. In 1663, Charles II granted the land called Carolina, to eight men, the Lord's Proprietors.

Standards

• This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into evaluating and utilizing primary sources as sources of knowledge to learn about South Carolina.
  • 1.H.3 Evaluate different sources of evidence used in historical inquiry, such as art, artifacts, digital sources, graphs, maps, oral histories, photographs/images, and texts.
• 3-1 The student will demonstrate an understanding of places and regions in South Carolina and the role of human systems in the state.
  • People utilize, adapt to, and modify the physical environment to meet their needs. They also identify regions based on geographic and human characteristics to help them interpret Earth’s complexity. To understand how people interact with the phy...
    • 3-1.1 Categorize the six landform regions of South Carolina—the Blue Ridge, the Piedmont, the Sand Hills, the Inner Coastal Plain, the Outer Coastal Plain, and the Coastal Zone— according to their climate, physical features, and natural res...
    • 3-1.3 Explain interactions between the people and the physical landscape of South Carolina over time, including the effects on population distribution, patterns of migration, access to natural resources, and economic development.
• 8-1 The student will demonstrate an understanding of the settlement of South Carolina and the United States by Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans.
  • The human mosaic of the South Carolina colony was composed of indigenous, immigrant, and enslaved populations. To understand how these differing backgrounds melded into an entirely new and different culture, the student will utilize the knowledge and ...
    • 8-1.1 Summarize the collective and individual aspects of the Native American culture of the Eastern Woodlands tribal group, including the Catawba, Cherokee, and Yemassee.