South Carolina Standards
Third Grade
3-4.1 Compare the conditions of daily life for various classes of people in South Carolina, including the elite, the middle class, the lower class, the independent farmers, and the free and the enslaved African Americans.
Fourth Grade
4-6.1 Compare the industrial North and the agricultural South prior to the Civil War, including the specific nature of the economy of each region, the geographic characteristics and boundaries of each region, and the basic way of life in each region.
Eighth Grade
8-3.1 Explain the importance of agriculture in antebellum South Carolina, including plantation life, slavery, and the impact of the cotton gin.
High School
USHC 3.3 Compare economic development in different regions of the country during the early nineteenth century, including agriculture in the South, industry and finance in the North, and the development of new resources in the West.
USHC 4.1 Compare the social and cultural characteristics of the North, the South, and the West during the antebellum period, including the lives of African Americans and social reform movements such as abolition and women's rights.
USHC 4.1 Compare the social and cultural characteristics of the North, the South, and the West during the antebellum period, including the lives of African Americans and social reform movements such as abolition and women's rights.
South Carolina Visual Arts Standard(s)
Elementary Level
IV-a Identify specific artworks and styles as belonging to particular artists, cultures, times, and places.
IV-b Identify a variety of art objects, artists, and resources specific to South Carolina.
IV-c Describe how history, culture, and the visual arts can influence each other.
IV-b Identify a variety of art objects, artists, and resources specific to South Carolina.
IV-c Describe how history, culture, and the visual arts can influence each other.
Grades 6-8
IV-b Compare and contrast a variety of art objects, artists, and resources specific to South Carolina.
IV-c Analyze, describe and demonstrate how factors of time and place (such as climate, resources, ideas, and technology) influence visual characteristics that give meaning and value to a work of art.
VI-a Compare and contrast the characteristics of works in two or more art forms that share similar subject matter, historical periods, or cultural contexts.
IV-c Analyze, describe and demonstrate how factors of time and place (such as climate, resources, ideas, and technology) influence visual characteristics that give meaning and value to a work of art.
VI-a Compare and contrast the characteristics of works in two or more art forms that share similar subject matter, historical periods, or cultural contexts.
High School
IV-a Differentiate among a variety of historical and cultural contexts in terms of characteristics and purposes of artworks.
IV-b Describe how a variety of art objects, artists, and resources specific to South Carolina represent and reflect society.
V-a Analyze intentions of artists and justify their own interpretations of particular works.
IV-b Describe how a variety of art objects, artists, and resources specific to South Carolina represent and reflect society.
V-a Analyze intentions of artists and justify their own interpretations of particular works.