Standard 4: Demonstrate an understanding of South Carolina’s role in and response to the dynamic economic, political, and social developments in the United States and around the world during the period 1862–1929.

• 8.3.P: Analyze the Civil War Amendments (i.e., 13th, 14th, and 15th) as a turning point in the economic, political, and social structures of South Carolina. This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into the changes that served as a catalyst for Reconstruction. The indicator was also designed to promote inquiry into how these actions affected the economic, political, and social conditions in the South.

• 8.4.CX: Evaluate South Carolinians’ struggle to create an understanding of their post-Civil War position within the state, the country, and the world. This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into how the former planter class, African Americans, women, and others adjusted to, gained, lost, and/or regained position and status during Reconstruction. This indicator was also written to foster inquiry into how South Carolina worked with a stronger federal government and expanding international markets.

• 8.4.CC: Analyze continuities and change in the African American experience in the period of Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras within South Carolina. This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into the successes and failures of Reconstruction, beginning with the Port Royal Experiment, in South Carolina. This indicator was written to explore development of the Constitutions of 1868 and 1895 and to analyze the evolution of restrictions for African Americans from the Black Codes in 1866 through the Plessy decision in 1898.

• 8.4.E: Utilize a variety of primary and secondary sources to analyze multiple perspectives of the challenges and changes within South Carolina and the nation that allowed the U.S. to emerge as a global power during the time period 1862–1929.

• I can analyze the significance of the Reconstruction Amendments and Congressional Reconstruction Plan.

• I can describe the similarities and differences between sharecropping and slavery.

• I can analyze how the end of Federal Reconstruction led to the Jim Crow Era.

• I can identify the economic, political and social struggles of African Americans during the Jim Crow Era.