8th GRADE SC  / US HISTORY VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS

Unit One: Colonial Period

• • • • Catawba Cultural Center

      • Interactive Timeline - Africa Before Slavery

      • Interactive Timeline- Slavery in America

      • Jamestown

      • Drayton Hall- Charleston, SC Plantation House built in 1738.

Unit Two: American Revolution

• • • • Beyond the Battlefield Revolutionary War Virtual Field Trip

      • Understanding the Constitution- Video

      • South Carolina Statehouse Virtual Tour

Unit Three: Antebellum and Civil War

• • • • Interactive Timeline- Slavery in America

      • Historic Brattonsville Upcounty Cotton Plantation

      • Fort Hill Plantation John C Calhoun Plantation House and Plantation Office

      • The Hunley

      • Confederate Relic Room and Museum

Unit Four: Post-Civil War South Carolina

• • • • Sharecropping- Reconstruction 360 (with goggles...if able)

      • Upcountry Museum's Textile Mill Exhibit

      • Ellis Island- Interactive Tour

      • Ellis Island National Parks Service Website

      • Ferris State University's Jim Crow Museum

      • Timeline- Jim Crow Era

Unit Five: Twentieth Century

• • • • USS Yorktown- WWII Battleship

      • Timeline- Civil Rights Era