When approaching an assignment about the influence of the Declaration of Independence, the major challenge is pairing down the thicket of required political events to consider other perspectives. The South Carolina high school curriculum offers only a few opportunities to examine other individuals and events that are not explicitly tied to the major political highlights of the US narrative. It takes some resolve to insert the voices of women, African Americans, indigenous people and the average laborer eking out an existence, while covering the traditional causes of the American Revolution, the failings of the Articles of Confederation and the creation and ratification of the US Constitution.
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Marc Turner
10/6/2020 06:06:29 am
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