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Curriculum Standard: 4th Grade

Students study the history of the United States and South Carolina in grade four, beginning with the colonization of the United States and continuing through Reconstruction.

4.5.E: Analyze multiple perspectives of the economic, political, and social effects of Reconstruction on different populations in the South and in other regions of the U.S.

4.1.CX: Contextualize the experience of Africans, Europeans, and Native Americans in South Carolina.

4.1.CC: Identify patterns of change and continuity in the development of economic systems in British North America.

4.1.E: Analyze multiple perspectives on the economic, political, and social developments of British North America and South Carolina.

4.2.CO: Compare the roles of marginalized groups during the American Revolution.

4.2.CE: Examine the economic and political motivations for colonists to declare independence from Great Britain.

4.2.P: Analyze the sequence of events that led to the establishment of the U.S. as a democratic republic.

4.2.CX: Contextualize South Carolina’s role in the development of the new nation.

4.2.CC: Explain the continuities and changes in natural rights as seen from the French and Indian War to the creation of the Bill of Rights.

4.2.E: Analyze multiple perspectives on the economic, political, and social developments of the new nation.

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