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.

• 8.4.CO: Compare perspectives toward reform that emerged during the Progressive Era. This indicator was designed to encourage inquiry into how new state and federal Progressive legislation affected individuals and businesses in South Carolina and the U.S. The indicator was also designed to promote inquiry into the new perspectives that emerged regarding social and political change.

• 8.4. CE: Explain the causes and effects of World War I on South Carolina and the United States. This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into the significant causes of World War I and the factors leading to U.S. involvement. This indicator was also developed to promote inquiry into the effects of the war, to include its impact on the homefront, migration patterns, and continued foreign policy debates.

• 8.4.P: Summarize the economic changes that emerged in South Carolina and the U.S. This indicator was designed to encourage inquiry into South Carolina’s changing agriculture, industry labor force, and political alignments. This indicator was also designed to promote inquiry into the relationship between South Carolina’s economy and global events, to include imperialism and World War I.

• 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.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 draw connections between the expansion of railroads and the growth of South Carolina’s textile industry.

• I can explain why South Carolina’s farmers were struggling around the turn of the 1900s.

• I can analyze the movement of people into and around the US to understand their motives for moving and the impact they had in their new communities.

• I can source to determine key points of the Progressive Movement.

• I can describe the MAIN causes of World War I.

• I can evaluate the ways World War I shifted South Carolina’s economy and the subsequent effects on specific groups of people.